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uses a negative value for text-indent and a positive value for padding-left.


 

<!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: -50px;
  padding-left: 50px;
}

</style>
</head>
<body>


<p class="myStyle">asdf </p> 
    
</body>
</html>