Can't save my indenting on paragraphs
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I cannot seem to make and save the changes I want today, specifically, indenting paragraphs. I know it will indent because my paragraphs on previous posts are indented, but today that’s one change that wrodpress doesn’t see to want to make. What’s up?
Blog url: http://libertybelleblog.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Using a series of non-breaking spaces and break tags, like you are, is not the best way to do this and will in general cause issues. The best way is to use a style declaration in the opening p tag such as this:
<p style="text-indent: 20px;>Are you wanting no spacing between paragraphs?
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I have no idea about codes and all that mess- never used them, so that won’t really help me since I’m not familiar with what you’retalking about.
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Blogs are not structured to indent paragraphs. If you want to indent paragraphs then you must use the correct code to indent each and every paragraph like thesacredpath stated above.
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Trying to use spaces to give you paragraph indents will always be problematic and the majority of the time all but one will get stripped out by the wordpress software since it is sort of not the web standard way to do things.
I also see that you are using shift-return/enter at the end of your paragraphs I assume so that you do not have blank space between paragraphs. What this means on the web, in actuality, is that you have one long paragraph, not separate paragraphs.
Create a test draft post with paragraphs and do not use shift-enter at the end of a paragraph; press enter by itself (don’t publish it).
Switch to the HTML tab on the editor and paste the following code at the beginning of each paragraph and then preview you post and you will see the indent at the beginning of each paragraph (with blank lines between).
<p style=”text-indent: 20px;”>
If you do not want blank lines between paragraphs, then instead paste in the following in the HTML tab at the beginning of each paragraph to give the indent and have no blank line.
<p style="text-indent: 20px; margin-bottom: 0;">If you had the custom design upgrade, we could take care of this with CSS once and for all and you would not have to worry about trying to indent paragraphs. It would happen automatically.
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Sorry, I missed my code tags on the first bit of code above. Copy and paste this to give it a try.
<p style="text-indent: 20px;">
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