text-indent | Frontend Practical Guide

Overview

The text-indent CSS property sets the size of the empty space (indentation) at the beginning of lines in a text.

Feature	Desktop				Mobile
Feature	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Safari	Chrome Android	Safari iOS
`text-indent`	1	12	1	1	18	1

1+Supported (version) Not supported ※Has note Sub-feature descriptions sourced from MDN Web Docs (CC BY-SA 2.5)

CSS

p {
  text-indent: 1em;
}
.hanging {
  text-indent: -2em;
  padding-left: 2em;
}

CSS Text-indent: 1em demo.

CSS bottomindent demo.

CSS big indent demo.

Using text-indent
The text-indent CSS property sets the size of the empty space (indentation) at the beginning of lines in a text.