Title: Styling Theme Options Elements
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Styling Theme Options Elements

 *  Resolved [tua33450](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tua33450/)
 * (@tua33450)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-theme-options-elements/)
 * Hello. I have added theme options to my custom theme, so that the site owner 
   can customize certain blocks of text. Both options are in the form of textareas.
   I would like the text to display with first line indention on paragraphs, but
   it does not. I have styled the font, etc. of the text, but when I apply text-
   indent: 40px to the element, only the first line of the text is indented. From
   this, I gather that it is treating the input as one block of text, as opposed
   to multiple return lines. Here is the page, that I mean: [http://www.jeffpoetry.com/?page_id=61](http://www.jeffpoetry.com/?page_id=61).
   Just let me know which lines of code that you need. Any help would be greatly
   appreciated.

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 *  Thread Starter [tua33450](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tua33450/)
 * (@tua33450)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-theme-options-elements/#post-2499403)
 * I kind of figured this out. I just wrapped the element in pre tags, and enabled
   text wrapping. The text-indent still did not work, but I was able to manually
   indent with spacing in the textarea.

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