[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by theducks

<p></p> is probably someone writing books like they were on a Typewriter

But as indicated ALL <p> will be treated the same. Usually that is not always 100% of the cases.

<p class="noindent"> for those exceptions (AKA Flush left)


so your CSS would be:

p {text-indent: 1.5em; }

.noindent {text-indent: 0;}

IMHO, <p> CSS would be better off being...

<p> {
  text-indent: 1.2em;
  margin-top: 0;
  margin-bottom: 0;
  widows: 1;
  orphans: 1;
}