JenR
(@jennifer-roberts)
You can control the formatting of text in the CSS of your theme. You’ll need to modify the margin (top and bottom) and use the text-indent attribute – both as applied to a paragraph tag (p).
Something like this to a custom CSS (or child theme):
p {
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
text-indent: 50px;
}
Good reference page for CSS:
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_text_text-indent.asp
For more specific help, please post a link to your site.
To take this a step further, you might consider only doing this for paragraphs after the first one, and/or possibly adding a drop cap for the first paragraph.
IF your paragraphs will all be next to each other, then you could write:
p {
margin-top: 1em;
}
p+p {
margin-top: 0;
text-indent: 1.5em; /* heartily recommend ems -- style is tied to font size */
}
Drop cap might look like this:
p:first-child:first-letter {
font-size: 2.25em; /* may want to fiddle */
float: left;
margin-right: .25em;
margin-bottom: .5em;
}
This should apply to any paragraphs that are the first in a series. You could also write it as p { ... styles ... } and then counteract that with:
p + p:first-letter {
display: inline;
font-size: 1em;
margin: 0;
float: none;
}
There are, in short, options 🙂
