CSS Properties: How to set indent of the first line of all paragraph elements

Last update on February 24 2024 12:26:56 (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 indent of the first line of all paragraph elements</title><!-- Sets the title of the document -->
<style type="text/css"> /* Starts CSS styling */
p { /* Styles all paragraph elements */
    text-indent: 100px; /* Sets the indentation of the first line of paragraphs to 100 pixels */
}
</style><!-- Ends CSS styling -->
</head><!-- Ends the head section -->
<body><!-- Begins the body of the document -->
<h2><strong>w3resource Tutorial</strong></h2><!-- Displays a level 2 heading with bold text "w3resource Tutorial" -->

<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.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.</p><!-- Displays a paragraph with the specified text -->

</body><!-- Ends the body section -->
</html><!-- Ends the HTML document -->

Explanation:

This HTML document demonstrates how to set the indentation of the first line of all paragraph elements using CSS.
CSS comments are added to explain each section of the code.
The p selector styles all paragraph elements.
text-indent: 100px; sets the indentation of the first line of paragraphs to 100 pixels.

Live Demo:

See the Pen text-indent-answer by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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