css text-indent equivalent on the right side

Question

I have right-side aligned text and I want it to push it a little bit left like you do with text-indent bur on the right side. Any solution with that? I\'ve been trying with

Answer 1

Do the following

text-indent: 60px;
direction: rtl;
text-align: left;

f.ardelian pointed out: Punctuation will appear at the beginning of the line so abc. will appear .abc

Answer 2

What I did and worked for me was this:

text-indent: 20px;
padding-right: 40px;

Answer 3

There is none, unfortunately there is no text outdent in css, hower, you could use text direction direction:rtl; for some short texts, in that way indent will appear on the other side.

Answer 4

CSS only solution, does not mess with text direction (SEO and translation friendly?), no floats, no additional elements, width of post-indent is easy to modify:

&::after {
    content: "\0000a0";
    height: 1em;
    letter-spacing: 1rem;
}

Answer 5

I would need to see your code however a solution to your problem with old browsers is to include an empty span and apply a width:

<style>
span.right-adjust {
  display:inline-block;
  width:5px;
}
</style>

<div>Your text here<span class="right-adjust"></span></div>

It is hard to tell what you want without providing us with code. You could also apply a float:right;

There are many ways to solve issues with old browsers and CSS.

Hope this helps

Answer 6

Simple solution is to apply a "before" CSS style to your text element which negates all side effects of direction: rtl;

&:before {
      content: ' ';
      width: 100px;
      float: right;
      height: 5px;
}