Can you apply CSS only on text that is wrapped, i.e. the second and subsequent lines?

Question

I want to put a margin-left on only the text that is wrapped, i.e. text after the first line:

This is text with no margin left
     this text ha         


        

Answer 1

No, but you can apply CSS to the first line, so you could reverse your thinking to achieve the same effect.

Something like this:

.mytext {margin-left:-5em;}
.mytext:first-line {margin-left:0;}

Here's a JSFiddle example of it working: http://jsfiddle.net/4ckxJ/3/

See http://www.quirksmode.org/css/firstline.html for more info on the :first-line pseudo-class.