CSS `text-indent` Property

Description

The text-indent CSS property specifies the indent in the first line of text within an element.

The following table summarizes the usages context and the version history of this property.

Default value:	`0`
Applies to:	Block and inline-block elements, table cells
Inherited:	Yes
Animatable:	Yes. See animatable properties.
Version:	CSS 1, 2, 3

The syntax of the property is given with:

text-indent:

length | percentage | initial | inherit

The example below shows the text-indent property in action.

p {
    text-indent: 100px;
}

The following table describes the values of this property.

Value	Description
length	Specifies a fixed length indentation. Negative length Values are allowed.
percentage	The indentation is a percentage (%) of the containing block width. Negative percentage Values are allowed.
`initial`	Sets this property to its default value.
`inherit`	If specified, the associated element takes the computed value of its parent element `text-indent` property.

The text-indent property is supported in all major modern browsers.