Text Indent

How to make a large blank space in html using css?
How to create the space / indent for the paragraph beginning?

Usage:
text-indent: 1cm;
text-indent: 10px;
text-indent: 10pt;
text-indent: 10%; 

This attribute can be used to indent the text. In simple word to move the text by some distance away from the border. It can also be termed as a big marginal space
It takes the following values.

1) cm : The indent can be set in centimeter as 1cm or 2cm etc ...
2) px : The indent can be set in pixels as 1px or 10px etc ...
3) pt : The indent can be set in points as 1pt or 10pt etc ...


Example1: 

 <div style="text-indent: 1cm;">text indent</div>  
 Result:   text indent

Emaple 2:

 <div style="text-indent: 20px;">  
 text indent line 1<br>  
 text indent line 2  
 </div> 

Result : text indent line 1

 text indent line 2

Example 3:

 <div style="text-indent: 40pt;">text indent</div>  
 Result: text indent