July 1998
Intermediate to advanced
1456 pages
65h 5m
English
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Name
text-indent — NN 4 IE 4 CSS 1
Synopsis
Inherited: Yes
Sets the size of indenting of the first line of a block of inline
text (such as a P element). Only the first line is
affected by this setting. A negative value can be used to outdent the
first line, but be sure the text does not run beyond the left edge of
the browser window or frame.
CSS Syntax
text-indent:length|percentage
JavaScript Equivalent
textIndent
Value
See the discussion about length values at the beginning of this chapter. Negative lengths may be allowed in some contexts, but be sure to test the results on all browsers. You may also specify a percentage value, which is calculated based on the width of the next outermost container.
Initial Value
0
Example
BODY {text-indent: 2em}
P.firstGraphs {text-indent: 0}Applies To
Block-level elements.
Object Model Reference
- IE
[window.]document.all.elementID.style.textIndent
Notes
Internet Explorer 4 for the Macintosh does not respond to the
text-indent attribute properly.
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