CSS text-indent Property

Example

Indent the first line of paragraphs with 50 pixels:

p
{
text-indent:50px;
}

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The text-indent property specifies the indentation of the first line in a text-block.

Note: Negative values are allowed. The first line will be indented to the left if the value is negative.

The text-indent property is supported in all major browsers.

Note: No versions of Internet Explorer (including IE8) support the property value "inherit".

Value	Description
length	Defines a fixed indentation in px, pt, cm, em, etc.
%	Defines the indentation in % of the width of the parent element
inherit	Specifies that the value of the text-indent property should be inherited from the parent element

CSS tutorial: CSS Text

HTML DOM reference: textIndent property