---
title: firstLineHeadIndent
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: appkit/nsparagraphstyle/firstlineheadindent
---

# firstLineHeadIndent

The indentation of the first line of the paragraph.

## Declaration

```swift
var firstLineHeadIndent: CGFloat { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion This property contains the distance (in points) from the leading margin of a text container to the beginning of the paragraph’s first line. This value is always nonnegative.

## See Also

### Accessing style information

- [alignment](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/alignment.md)
- [NSTextAlignment](appkit/nstextalignment.md)
- [headIndent](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/headindent.md)
- [tailIndent](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/tailindent.md)
- [lineHeightMultiple](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/lineheightmultiple.md)
- [maximumLineHeight](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/maximumlineheight.md)
- [minimumLineHeight](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/minimumlineheight.md)
- [lineSpacing](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/linespacing.md)
- [paragraphSpacing](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/paragraphspacing.md)
- [paragraphSpacingBefore](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/paragraphspacingbefore.md)