W3C CSS2 Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 - instructional media + ...

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16.1 Indentation: the ’text-indent’ property . . . . . . . 237 .
16.2 Alignment: the ’text-align’ property . . . . . . . . 238 .
16.3 Decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 .
16.3.1 Underlining, overlining, striking, and blinking: the ’text-decoration’
property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 .
16.3.2 Text shadows: the ’text-shadow’ property . . . . . 239 .
16.4 Letter and word spacing: the ’letter-spacing’ and ’word-spacing’ properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 .
16.5 Capitalization: the ’text-transform’ property . . . . . . 242 .
16.6 Whitespace: the ’white-space’ property . . . . . . . 243 .
The properties defined in the following sections affect the visual presentation of
characters, spaces, words, and paragraphs.
16.1 Indentation: the ’text-indent’ property
’text-indent’
Value: | | inherit
Initial: 0
Applies to: block-level elements
Inherited: yes
Percentages: refer to width of containing block
Media: visual
This property specifies the indentation of the first line of text in a block. More
precisely, it specifies the indentation of the first box that flows into the block’s first
line box [p. 105] . The box is indented with respect to the left (or right, for
right-to-left layout) edge of the line box. User agents should render this indentation
as blank space.
Values have the following meanings:
The indentation is a fixed length.
The indentation is a percentage of the containing block width.
The value of ’text-indent’ may be negative, but there may be implementation-specific
limits.
Example(s):
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