Re: [WSG] paragraph indent

2005-07-03 Thread Bert Doorn 

G'day


I wanted to get my paragraphs to indent on a site so I tried the most
intuitive thing:

p:first-line{padding:1em}


How about

p { text-indent: 1em }


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RE: [WSG] paragraph indent

2005-07-03 Thread Tatham Oddie 
Bert,

 I wanted to get my paragraphs to indent on a site so I tried the most
 intuitive thing:
 p:first-line{padding:1em}

 How about
 p { text-indent: 1em }

This will indent the whole paragraph, while Alan is only trying to indent
the first line.



Thanks,

Tatham Oddie
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Re: [WSG] paragraph indent

2005-07-03 Thread Lukasz Grabun 

Tatham Oddie napisał(a):


How about
p { text-indent: 1em }



This will indent the whole paragraph, while Alan is only trying to indent
the first line.


According to the spec 
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/text.html#indentation-prop) it indents 
only the first line:
This property specifies the indentation of the first line of text in a 
block.


So, the answer was and is correct.

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Re: [WSG] paragraph indent

2005-07-03 Thread Bert Doorn 

G'day

Lukasz Grabun wrote:
According to the spec 
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/text.html#indentation-prop) it indents 
only the first line:
This property specifies the indentation of the first line of text in a 
block.


So, the answer was and is correct.


Thanks Lukasz.

I tested my solution in MSIE6 and Firefox before sending it too. 
 They both behaved per spec, indenting only the first line of 
each paragraph.


If the intention was to indent the whole paragraph, my suggestion 
 would have been along the lines of p { margin-left: 1em }



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