Suppress indentation of first paragraph

[btab]

Hi,
I often convert from epub to epub to remove spacing between paragraphs and set the text justification to "justified". It works fine, but I have not found a way to suppress the indentation of the first paragraph. I have tried to specify an "Extra CSS":

p:first-child {text-indent: 0pt;}

but it seems to have no effect in the generated output.
I would be very thankful for any hints.
Thanks in advance,
Behnam

[davidfor]

I think that isn't working because the first-child of the parent is probably a heading. Or at least that is my reading of the definition.

What I use to achieve what you want is:

h2 + p , h4 + p, hr + p {text-indent:0}

The exact heading levels and hr might get adjusted for different books but that works.

[btab]

Thank you davidfor for your answer.
You're right: My initial attempt with "p:first-child" would work only in cases where all paragraphs are inside an enclosing element like "div", which is not always the case.

Based on your solution with adjacent siblings (and after some experiments) I finally get good results with the following:

"Remove spacing between paragraphs" (checked)
"Indent size" (set to "No change")
Extra CSS:
p {text-indent: 0}
p + p {text-indent: 1.5em}

Setting the indent size in the dialog box to "No change" seems to be essential, otherwise the given value will override the value given in the extra CSS.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by btab

"Remove spacing between paragraphs" (checked)
"Indent size" (set to "No change")
Extra CSS:
p {text-indent: 0}
p + p {text-indent: 1.5em}

Thanks for sharing your solution.

Originally Posted by btab

Setting the indent size in the dialog box to "No change" seems to be essential, otherwise the given value will override the value given in the extra CSS.

You are correct. The checkbox next to "Remove spacing between paragraphs" also activates the "Indent size" field. If the box is not checked neither of these features are activated. It is sometimes hard to realize that the checkbox is for the entire line of features.

Good Reading.