How can I indent starting from the second line of a paragraph?
I've tried
p {
text-indent: 200px;
}
p:first-line {
text-indent: 0;
}
and
p {
margin-left: 200px;
}
p:first-line {
margin-left: 0;
}
and
(with position:relative;)
p {
left: 200px;
}
p:first-line {
left: 0;
}
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Is it literally just the second line you want to indent, or is it from the second line (ie. a hanging indent)?
If it is the latter, something along the lines of this JSFiddle would be appropriate.
div {_x000D_
padding-left: 1.5em;_x000D_
text-indent:-1.5em;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
span {_x000D_
padding-left: 1.5em;_x000D_
text-indent:-1.5em;_x000D_
}<div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</div>_x000D_
_x000D_
<span>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</span>This example shows how using the same CSS syntax in a DIV or SPAN produce different effects.
Make left-margin: 2em or so will push the whole text including first line to right 2em. Than add text-indent (applicable to first line) as -2em or so.. This brings first line back to start without margin. I tried it for list tags
<style>
ul li{
margin-left: 2em;
text-indent: -2em;
}
</style>
This worked for me:
p { margin-left: -2em;
text-indent: 2em
}
If you style as list
I guess putting the second line in would also work, but requires human thinking for the content to flow properly, and, of course, hard line breaks (which don't bother me, per se).
I needed to indent two rows to allow for a larger first word in a para. A cumbersome one-off solution is to place text in an SVG element and position this the same as an <img>. Using float and the SVG's height tag defines how many rows will be indented e.g.
<p style="color: blue; font-size: large; padding-top: 4px;">
<svg height="44" width="260" style="float:left;margin-top:-8px;"><text x="0" y="36" fill="blue" font-family="Verdana" font-size="36">Lorum Ipsum</text></svg>
dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</p>
Yes it is cumbersome but it is also independent of the width of the containing div.
The above answer was to my own query to allow the first word(s) of a para to be larger and positioned over two rows. To simply indent the first two lines of a para you could replace all the SVG tags with the following single pixel img:
<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" style="float:left;width:260px;height:44px;" />
There is a CSS3 working draft that will (hopefully soon) allow you to write just:
p { text-indent: 200px hanging; }
Keep an eye on: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-indent
Source: Stackoverflow.com