First word placement
text-indent
Should the first word of a paragraph be indented or flush with the left margin?
Property values
Specify how much space to add to a paragraph's first line before its first word. Use any of these font-relative typographic units:
% | percent | A percentage of the paragraph's width |
em | em | The font-size of the current font |
rem | relative em | The font-size of the <html> element |
ch | "0" | The advance measure (the width) of the current font's "0" glyph |
ic | ideograph count | The advance measure (the width) of the current font's "水" ideograph |
Or use any of these fixed size units which are independent of the current font:
in | inch | A size equal 96px |
px | pixels | A size equal to 1/96 inch |
pt | point | A size equal 1in/72 = 1.33px |
pc | pica | A size equal 1in/6 = 12pt = 16px |
cm | centimeter | A size equal to 96px/2.54 = 37.8px |
mm | millimeter | A size equal to 96px/25.4 = 3.8px |
Q | quarter millimeter | A size equal to 96px/1016 = 0.94px |
To create a hanging indent, specify a negative value together with an equivalent positive value for padding-left
. (A newer experimental way to create hanging indents is to add the keyword hanging
to this property.)