Indenting and centering text in Tumblr posts

I spent many sleepless nights pining for a quick HTML fix to the problem of how to indent / center a photo or entire paragraph in a post.

Indented paragraphs should fit seamlessly with your text (like this), without having to recourse to the ugly option of a blockquote tag.

In the end I think the least toilsome solution is to add some custom CSS directly to the HTML code of your theme. That's to say, in your Dashboard access Customize, then Edit HTML, then see that there's a <style></style> block in the HTML of your theme. Right before, say, </style>, add some new styles as befits your taste.

For indenting paragraphs, you may add this:

p.tab{ margin-left:40px; }

For centering, add this:

p.center{ text-align:center; }

I also use this, to align text to the right:

p.right{ text-align: right; }