Probably a stupid question: Why won't the common app let me put indents at the start of paragraphs?

My essay is four paragraphs. For some reason it won’t let me indent my paragraphs, and when I tried to put two lines between each paragraph it reverted to just one. It’s a little bit impossible to distinguish one paragraph from the next because they all end at the right hand margin. Am I being dumb and missing something or is that just the way its formatted?

That’s the way it formats while you have the dialogue box open. Once you finish and then press the preview button, you should see all of your paragraph breaks in the correct places.

Because it’s the internet. “Tab” does different things here than in Word.

Put two line breaks between your paragraphs instead.