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

Assume I want to publish a longer article on a web page.
One of the paragraphs I want to display with an indent.
Read: All text lines of this paragraph should be displayed with (let's say 8) blanks
from the "normal" left side.

How do I do that without coding "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" ?

Is there something like
<TAB size=8> ..... </TAB> ?

Wladi

Wladimir Borsov wrote:

Assume I want to publish a longer article on a web page.
One of the paragraphs I want to display with an indent.
Read: All text lines of this paragraph should be displayed with (let's say
8) blanks from the "normal" left side.

some selector {
margin-left: 8ex;
}

http://dorward.me.uk/www/css/#tutorials if that doesn't make sense.

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Wladimir Borsov wrote:

Assume I want to publish a longer article on a web page.
One of the paragraphs I want to display with an indent.
Read: All text lines of this paragraph should be displayed with
(let's say 8) blanks from the "normal" left side.

How do I do that without coding
"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" ?

Is there something like
TAB size=8> ..... </TAB> ?

Wladi

Define a new div in your CSS and set the left and right margins to be 8em
wider than the margins of your main content div or <p>?

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Hi!

If you use CSS you can create a paragraph-class like this (Code not
tested!!):

p.yourparagraphname
{
text-indent: 1cm;
}


then:

<p class="yourparagraphname">
ajaj ajajaj aj aj aj aj
</p>


Frank

Wladimir Borsov wrote:

Assume I want to publish a longer article on a web page.
One of the paragraphs I want to display with an indent.

<p style="margin-left:4em">This paragraph is indented.</p>

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On Sun, 2 May 2004 21:57:40 +0200, wladimirb (AT) gmx (DOT) net (Wladimir Borsov)
declared in alt.html,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:

One of the paragraphs I want to display with an indent.

..indent {padding-left: 6em;} /* flavour to taste */

<p class="indent">Indented text here...</p>

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http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au

Brian wrote:

Wladimir Borsov wrote:

Assume I want to publish a longer article on a web page. One of the
paragraphs I want to display with an indent.

Why do you want to indent it? (Is it a long quotation?)

Read: All text lines of this paragraph should be displayed with
(let's say 8) blanks from the "normal" left side.

The css solutions already proposed will work -- assuming a css capable
browser, of couse.

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

= Eric

Eric Bustad <ekbustad (AT) monmouth (DOT) com> wrote:

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

Nothing, if and only if the answer to the question "(Is it a long
quotation?)" is "yes". Consult the definition of <blockquote> in the HTML
specification, if this is not clear.

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On Sun, 2 May 2004, Eric Bustad wrote:

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

Naive answer: What's wrong with learning HTML for logical markup, and
CSS for presentation?

Eric Bustad wrote:

Brian wrote:

Wladimir Borsov wrote:
Read: All text lines of this paragraph should be displayed with
(let's say 8) blanks from the "normal" left side.

The css solutions already proposed will work -- assuming a css capable
browser, of couse.

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

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.

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Shawn K. Quinn