---
title: headIndent
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: uikit/nsparagraphstyle/headindent
---

# headIndent

The indentation of the paragraph’s lines other than the first.

## Declaration

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

## Discussion

Discussion This property contains the distance (in points) from the leading margin of a text container to the beginning of lines other than the first. This value is always nonnegative.

## See Also

### Accessing style information

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