Just solved it with this in the org-mode file

@@html:<p class="myindent">@@my text here@@html:</p>@@

after adding this to css file

p.myindent {
    text-indent: 0em;
}




On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 10:52 AM Laurence von Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to temporarily suspend a CSS rule on an org-mode export to html. I have various CSS things going on in my export settings. Finally, I'm overruling the basic html export behavior with this

#+HTML_HEAD: <style>p { margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-indent: 2em; } </style>

which is specific to my ox-tufte html export in order to achieve a not-included "literary" book paragraph look, i.e., paragraph has first line indented, paragraphs have no gap. However, I would like to suspend the indentation only once in a while throughout the document for specific paragraphs, e.g., a first paragraph of a chapter -- but just for that paragraph. However, if I do an inline somewhere in the text, e.g.,

@@<style> p > { text-indent: 0em; }</style>@@The sheep and their Cumbrians, an age-old partnership, together since the ancient Norsemen brought the hardy Herdwick breed to the high and lonely Lake District...

this changes all paragraphs to no indentation everywhere top to bottom. And reversing this at the end of the paragraph back to 2em just changes everything everywhere back to 2em. So how can I do a temporary suspension of the indentation for one paragraph and then turn it back on?
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Lawrence Bottorff
Grand Marais, MN, USA


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Lawrence Bottorff
Grand Marais, MN, USA
borgauf@gmail.com