The CSS text-indent property helps us set the indentation of first line of an element.
Syntax
The syntax of CSS text-indent property is as follows −
Selector {
text-indent: /*value*/
}Example
The following examples illustrate CSS text-indent property.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
div {
display: flex;
float: left;
margin: auto;
padding: 10px;
}
article {
text-indent: 25%;
background-color: darkseagreen;
padding: 15px;
font-size: 1.3em;
}
h3 {
text-indent: -0.8em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<h3>Doing it our way. Nothing gonna turn us back now.</h3>
<article>
This is demo paragraph. This is demo paragraph. This is demo paragraph.
This is demo paragraph. This is demo paragraph. This is demo paragraph.
This is demo paragraph. This is demo paragraph. This is demo paragraph.
This is demo paragraph. This is demo paragraph. This is demo paragraph. </article>
</div>
</body>
</html>Output
This gives the following output −
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
ul {
list-style: none;
display: flex;
float: left;
text-indent: 23px;
background-image: url("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/angular4/images/angular-4.jpg");
font-size: 1.5em;
}
li {
border: thin solid;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li>This is demo text. This is demo text.</li>
<li>Angular 4 is a JavaScript framework for building web applications and apps in JavaScript, html, and TypeScript, which is a superset of JavaScript. </li>
<li>Angular provides built-in features for animation, http service, and materials which in turn has features such as auto-complete, navigation, toolbar, menus, etc</li>
<li>This is demo text. This is demo text.</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>Output
This gives the following output −
