How to indent a normal or a <PRE>....</PRE> text in HTML?

Eric Bustad wrote:

Naive question: What's wrong with <blockquote>?

"Shawn K. Quinn" <skquinn (AT) xevious (DOT) kicks-ass.net> posted:

If it's a block quotation, none at all. If it's not a block quotation, then
everything.

The element name is BLOCKQUOTE. It is not INDENT. In fact, the abuse of the
BLOCKQUOTE element to indent text is explicitly deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Not to mention that some browsers don't even indent blockquoted data (they
don't have to do that, there's no requirement that blockquoted text is
indented, it's merely a common practice). One of my browsers just
italicises blockquotes.

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On 4 May 2004 00:00:35 -0700, raymond (AT) raymondloman (DOT) nl (Raymond Loman)
declared in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html,alt.html:

Make your choice. <p> or <blockquote> ;-))

If it's a paragraph, use <p>. If it is a block quote, use <blockquote>.
If it is a paragraph that you want indented, use <p> with appropriate
CSS, as per Toby's post.

BTW: Please don't post upside-down.
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?How_to_post

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Raymond Loman wrote:

p>-tag is one of the possibilities. You can also use
the <blockquote>-tag.

Blockquote is good, but only appropriate if the text you're marking up is
a genuine quotation from some external source.

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"Raymond Loman" <raymond (AT) raymondloman (DOT) nl> wrote

Folks,

p>-tag is one of the possibilities. You can also use
the <blockquote>-tag.

Please don't give any more advice regarding HTML

-Karl

A: Top posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?

Raymond Loman wrote:

Folks,

p>-tag is one of the possibilities. You can also use
the <blockquote>-tag.

The rendering of BLOCKQUOTE is not even guaranteed to be indentation, and I
don't know how you figure P will usually render indented (unless I am
missing something, it won't).

Again, it's fine to use BLOCKQUOTE for a block quotation, but it's not an
"indent command".

[upside-down fullquote snipped]

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Shawn K. Quinn wrote:

A: Top posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?

Raymond Loman wrote:

Didn't I post the right way? Probably I am pretty new here, so
please instruct me how I should post on the Usenet. I try to avoid
top-posting.

The questioner was looking for an answer, not for ethics.
I quess he was helped.

Raymond.

Folks,

p>-tag is one of the possibilities. You can also use
the <blockquote>-tag.


The rendering of BLOCKQUOTE is not even guaranteed to be indentation, and I
don't know how you figure P will usually render indented (unless I am
missing something, it won't).

Again, it's fine to use BLOCKQUOTE for a block quotation, but it's not an
"indent command".

[upside-down fullquote snipped]

"Karl Groves" <karl (AT) NOSPAMkarlcore (DOT) com> wrote

"Raymond Loman" <raymond (AT) raymondloman (DOT) nl> wrote in message
news:b0782bd9.0405032300.65cf1a45 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com...
Folks,

p>-tag is one of the possibilities. You can also use
the <blockquote>-tag.

Please don't give any more advice regarding HTML

-Karl

Thanx for your advice.

-Raymond.

/Raymond Loman/:

The questioner was looking for an answer, not for ethics.
I quess he was helped.

The Usenet is not a personal help desk for every questioner and this
thread is meant help many others (not just him) - at this moment,
and at later time through archives. So the ethics and the written
format are of the most important things here.

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Raymond Loman wrote:

Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
A: Top posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?

Raymond Loman wrote:

Didn't I post the right way?

No, you put your response before the quote of my original message, which is
wrong (it should go after).

The questioner was looking for an answer, not for ethics.
I quess he was helped.

That was a pretty piss poor "answer" you gave, which was wrong on several
levels. I posted a correction in response, not "ethics".

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Shawn K. Quinn