CSS Properties: How to set the left margin for a paragraph element?

Last update on February 23 2024 13:04:59 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html><!-- Declares the document type and version of HTML -->
<html><!-- Begins the HTML document -->
<head><!-- Contains metadata and links to external resources -->
<title>How to set the left margin for a paragraph element</title><!-- Sets the title of the document -->
<style type="text/css"> /* Starts CSS styling */
p.w3r { /* Selects paragraphs with class 'w3r' */
    margin-left: 2cm; /* Sets the left margin of the paragraph */
}
</style><!-- Ends CSS styling -->
</head><!-- Ends the head section -->
<body><!-- Begins the body of the document -->
<p>CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.</p><!-- Paragraph element with text content -->
<p class="w3r">CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.</p><!-- Paragraph element with class 'w3r' and text content, with a left margin of 2 centimeters -->
<p>CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.</p><!-- Paragraph element with text content -->
</body><!-- Ends the body section -->
</html><!-- Ends the HTML document -->

Explanation:

This HTML document demonstrates how to set the left margin for specific paragraph elements using CSS.
CSS comments are added to explain each section of the code.
A class named w3r is defined to style specific paragraphs with a left margin.
The margin-left property is used to set the left margin for paragraphs with class w3r. The value 2cm represents the left margin, set to 2 centimeters.

Live Demo:

See the Pen margin-left-answer by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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