problem w/indenting
how can i indent text on my webpage (just a single line indent, not
)? i've just used "nbsp;" to indent(and it works fine) but it has this ... unwanted side effect. for some odd reason, it makes all of the quotation marks and apostrophes disappear! has anybody else encountered this problem? is there anyway around it?
disaster-master posted this at 04:31 — 29th December 2001.
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Look here: http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Design/Layout/
hope that helps.
Brian Farkas posted this at 05:27 — 29th December 2001.
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Alternatively, you could create a transparent spacer.gif, and set that to the width you want the indent to be.
Good luck,
Brian
Suzanne posted this at 05:40 — 29th December 2001.
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Ack, no! Don't hack code, please. You'll end up with a mess later.
& n b s p ; (the ampersand is vital -- remove the spaces) shouldn't remove anything. Check your syntax, you may be missing some code somewhere else.
You can also use CSS, though it only works in higher browsers.
p { text-indent; .5em; }
Do you have a sample url?
Suzanne
disaster-master posted this at 05:45 — 29th December 2001.
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OPPS is using the the
thingy called hacking code?
If so I shall remove that. Just something I found and it seemed to work. Wouldn't want to pass on any bad habits.
Busy posted this at 08:28 — 29th December 2001.
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also if you want quotes in your text, use ", dont use " it can cause problems, and if you missed a quote in a previous tag, the quote you add can be seen as the missing one and then all goes to ruins from there.
Suzanne posted this at 21:39 — 29th December 2001.
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You're not just whistling Dixie!
man, the problems caused by missing quotes and semi-colons!
Disaster-Master: using
isn't hacking, but using it without- just to indent, is. Using weird workarounds is really damaging to the content, especially for the future. You don't want all your hard work to fall to ruins because of a browser upgrade, right? We've seen that happen on the web a few times already (Netscape 6 anyone?).
That's why coding to standards is so important -- the future!
I have oodles of strange workarounds in my code from the past, and really need to edit a LOT of work, but fortunately have always been a lazy coder -- if it didn't work everywhere, I was liable to just ditch it altogether.
disaster-master posted this at 22:24 — 29th December 2001.
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That makes perfect sense Suzanne. Thanks for catching me on that one.
Suzanne posted this at 22:41 — 29th December 2001.
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No problem, you can catch me on the next one.
S
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