I'm making a website and i want to add an indent to the first line of a paragraph how do i do it, simply?

Question

I'm making a website and i want to add an indent to the first line of a paragraph how do i do it, simply?

Answer 1

If you want to do it properly, add a class to the first paragraph tag like this:

<p class="indent">

Then in the CSS stylesheet (assuming you have one), add this rule:

.indent {text-indent: 10pt;}

This method becomes much easier to maintain in the long run, rather than adding a style="text-indent: 10pt" attribute to every paragraph you want to indent.  

Answer 2

     Hit spacebar 5 times

Answer 3

When you put <p> add in 'style="text-indent: 10pt"' so it's like the below..

<p style="text-indent: 10pt">CONTENT HERE</p>

And DONT listen to the above answer.  HTML will automatically cancel out multiple spaces.  You can only do one space.

EDIT: I was assuming that since he/she didn't know about certain styles that they didn't know about CSS.  You can use either one but CSS is easier if you have a stylesheet.

Answer 4

You only have one correct answer and that's the one with text-indent styling.  You can also set a "hanging indent" of a paragraph using negative values. Depending on other styling requirements, the hanging indent may present display problems.  Usually better to use margin with the negative values for same effect.

Ron