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HTML, XHTML, & CSS, Sixth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide
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HTML, XHTML, & CSS, Sixth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Elizabeth Castro
August 2006
Beginner
456 pages
14h 55m
English
Peachpit Press
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Adding Indents

You can determine how much space should precede the first line of a paragraph.

Figure 10.29. I added a 1.5 em indent to the p elements (which, since their font size is about 14 pixels, will be an indent of about 21 pixels).

To add indents:

Type text-indent: length, where length is a number with units, as in 1.5em or 18px.

✓ Tips

  • A positive value creates a typical paragraph indent and serves as a visual clue as to where new paragraphs begin.

  • A negative value creates a hanging indent. You may need to increase the padding (see page 177) or margins (see page 176) around a text box with a hanging indent in order to accommodate the ...

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