第一行文本缩进的CSS替代？

Question

I am having a problem with how the <p> text-indent property is rendered when a page is printed with Internet Explorer's Active-X plugin. Here is the relevant CSS:

p {
font-family: Calibri;
font-size: 20pt;
line-height: 1.75em;
margin-bottom: 1.00em;  
margin-top: 1.00em;
margin-left:1.0em;
margin-right:1.0em; 
text-indent:1.5em;  
}

Below you can see what is happening when the HTML page, using the above code, is printed:

The top of every new page has the text indentation applied! Is there an alternative method of having the first line of every <p> "paragraph tag" indented without using "text-indent" property? The solution must be browser independent.

Answer 1

What about using ::first-letter pseudo-element?

p:first-letter {
    padding-left: 30px;
}

JsFiddle Demo

Browser Support

Chrome    Safari    Firefox    Opera    IE      Android    iOS
1+        1+        1+         3.5+     5.5+    All        All

Answer 2

You could use pseudo elements to mimic the effect of text-indent

p:before
{
    content: '\00A0 \00A0 \00A0 \00A0 \00A0 \00A0 \00A0';
    dispay:inline-block;
}

FIDDLE

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EDIT: (As per the questioner's comments below)

If the above CSS solution(s) don't work for you, then maybe instead of using css

you could just append a fixed number of non-breaking spaces after each paragraph element.

Like so <p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ... <p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ...

FIDDLE

You could do this simply by copy/replace:

 <p> -> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ...