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text-indent does not work on inline elements


 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title></title>
<style type="text/css" media="Screen">
* .myStyle {
  text-indent: 60px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p><span class="myStyle">this is a test. </span></p> 


</body>
</html>