How to indent the first line of a paragraph with CSS
The below HTML and CSS code example shows you how to specify the line-height of a paragraph with CSS.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>this is the title of the web page</title>
<style type="text/css">
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p style="text-indent: 1cm;">
This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "1cm". This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "1cm". This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "1cm". This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "1cm".
</p>
<p style="text-indent: 4cm;">
This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "4cm". This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "4cm". This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "4cm". This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "4cm".
</p>
</body>
</html>
The above HTML and CSS code makes the paragraphs below.
This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "1cm". This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "1cm". This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "1cm". This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "1cm".
This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "4cm". This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "4cm". This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "4cm". This paragraph has a text-indent attribute with a value of "4cm".
Use the text editor below to practice indenting the first line of a paragraph.