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

Wladimir Borsov · May 2, 2004

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 "        " ?

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

Wladi

Toby A Inkster · May 2, 2004

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

This paragraph is indented.

Raymond Loman · May 4, 2004

Folks,

-tag is one of the possibilities. You can also use
the <blockquote>-tag.
See code:
----------------------

<html>
<head></head>

<body>
normal

<blockquote>
this whole text is indented. 
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 
thiss sentencee contains three errors. 
<blockquote>
you can even nest the blockquote tag. 

</blockquote>
so you have multiple paragraphs.
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>

----------------------

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

Raymond.
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Mark Parnell · May 4, 2004

On 4 May 2004 00:00:35 -0700, (e-mail address removed) (Raymond Loman)
declared in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html,alt.html:

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

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

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

Toby A Inkster · May 4, 2004

Raymond said:
-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.

Karl Groves · May 4, 2004

Raymond Loman said:
Folks,

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

Please don't give any more advice regarding HTML

-Karl

Shawn K. Quinn · May 4, 2004

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

Raymond said:
Folks,

-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]

Raymond Loman · May 5, 2004

Karl Groves said:
Please don't give any more advice regarding HTML

-Karl

Thanx for your advice.

-Raymond.

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

Wladimir Borsov

Toby A Inkster

Raymond Loman

Mark Parnell

Toby A Inkster

Karl Groves

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