how to indent single lines??

[yojitani]

Maybe it's late and there's something really basic I'm forgetting, but how do you indent single lines - NOT first lines - of text without using  

To explain, I'm doing webwork for a literary magazine and I'm having a hell of a time formatting poetry that has 'unusual' indents. the indented lines can't break with proceeding lines so something like <p style="text-indent" > won't work of course because the <p> creates unwanted space..

I'm using dreamweaver 8 - though I tend to do about 70 of the work in code. Any tips on how to do this would be most appreciated!!

 

[angelneo]

I'm not sure if I get your question, but perhaps you can try wrapping around tag such as <span style="text-indent">?

 

[Trogloxene]

Yea, I think Dreamweaver indents by paragraphs, not by lines. One solution is to make a table with two rows. Indent one row and not the other.

-T

 

[justG]

something like <p style="text-indent" > won't work of course because the <p> creates unwanted space..

So make it not create unwanted space, that's why we have CSS. You can remove the unwanted space by creating a style block that specifies 0 margin/padding. Creating a table is never an option to solve a layout issue if you're at all concerned with semantic code (sorry, Trogloxene, but it's just not).

span.indent {
  padding-left: .2em;
}

<p>
  Little Miss Muffet<br />
  <span class="indent">sat on a tuffet</span><br />
  ...
</p>

 

[nicksoper]

<ul>

Do you not want to be using a <ul> indented text </ul> ?

You could even make different indented styles in the style sheet:

<ul class="poem1">indented text</ul>

You can set the default indent with a ul{padding-left:10px;} and you can then add more styles as you wish.

Kinda wierd question, not sure if this is the right answer.

 

[yojitani]

I'm not sure if I get your question, but perhaps you can try wrapping around tag such as <span style="text-indent">?

doh! yes, that's what I was thinking of! Thanks!! and thanks the rest of you too (though Trogloxene, listen to JustG)


(need more sleep!)