Text indent after the first line in a paragraph
Solution 1
You need text-indent
. Normally text-indent
pushes the first line inwards, but if you give it a minus figure and use a positive margin, you can achieve the effect you're after.
text-indent: -10px;
margin-left: 10px
Solution 2
p {
text-indent: -1em;
padding-left: 1em;
}
Solution 3
Not usable right now but if you activate the Experimental Web platform Flag on chrome you can use text-indent:1em each-line;
which should do exactly what you want.
Solution 4
On inline elements maybe it works differently, I have noticed. I was needing an "outdent" (first line further left than rest of paragraph) and noticed the suggestions above did the opposite -- created a regular indent (where first line is further RIGHT than other lines). Here is what works for an inline element, for example, an "a" tag:
#myDiv ul li { margin-left:1em; }
#myDiv ul li a { color:#333; text-indent:0.5em; margin-left:-1em; line-height:1; }
I also set the containing block-level element to have a margin of 1em, so that where the inline "a" elements commence, with their negative margins, they actually position exactly where I things would have been originally before messing around to make an "outdent".
Hope this helps someone! I also noticed there's no size control on the text-indent itself on my inline element, either....
weaselskinghenry
People here give great answers, I have a hard time choosing the best one.
Updated on May 05, 2020Comments
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weaselskinghenry about 4 years
- A Reuters reporter in Surkhrod district in Nangarhar province, where villagers said the raids took place, said Afghan police fired at the crowd after some of them started throwing stones at local government buildings.
In the above paragraph, I would like to use CSS to make all lines after the first line to automatically indent some space so that each line stays right after the - in the first line.
HTML
<p> - A Reuters reporter in Surkhrod district in Nangarhar province, where villagers said the raids took place, said Afghan police fired at the crowd after some of them started throwing stones at local government buildings.</p>
It's similar to a list item with list position set to outside, but I don't want to use a list.
What is the simplest way you can think of to achieve this effect? Less extra html markups will be better.
Many thanks to you all.
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Nicolas over 11 yearsUse of padding seems to be better than margin to not get outside of the block as KennyTM wrote in his answer.
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V. Rubinetti about 7 yearsWorth upvoting for the future when this very convenient feature is (hopefully) supported by major browsers.
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certainlyakey almost 7 yearsThis is not a magical bullet as it might seem but is essentially the same as
text-indent: <N>px; padding-left: -<N>px;
, so it won't work for many font/font-size combinations.