formatting text using indent feature
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I want to indent a few lines below a title. When I use the indent feature, ALL the text including title indent. Depending, the body of text above also indents. Thanks. F.
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Hi there,
When you use the indent button, all of the text in that paragraph will be indented. To make sure that only certain text (and not the text above or below it) is indented, be sure to make a paragraph break with the Enter/Return key.
If you make line breaks without creating a new paragraph (for example by pressing Shift + Enter), all of the text will be indented.
Please let me know if I can provide any further help with this. :) If you can link to a post or page where you’re having trouble with this, I’d be happy to take a closer look at it.
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Rachel –
Thanks for this suggestion..
I’ll give it a try. Makes perfect sense…. SO new to all of this but loving it.
Regards, Fred -
Hi Fred,
You’re very welcome. If you run into any further trouble, do let me know. I’d be happy to help.
And I’m glad you’re enjoying it — happy blogging! :)
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Rachel – I will take you up on your kind offer and show you the problem(s) I am having. On this page – http://citypointvirtual.com/city-point-virtual-services-2/ – under the title ‘Publications,’ I get the indent I want but can’t seem to lose the space between the title and the first line ‘- newsletters.’ If I use the shift/return keys which give me a single space, ALL including the title, indent. The other formatting problem is that second set of listings under the title ‘Organizational’ can only be achieved by my using the space bar to get over to that point. On, say, other writing programs, one could use a TAB setting. Any thoughts? Thanks again for your help. Fred
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Hi Fred,
I get the indent I want but can’t seem to lose the space between the title and the first line ‘- newsletters.’ If I use the shift/return keys which give me a single space, ALL including the title, indent.
I see what you mean. The space between paragraphs is part of your theme’s design. Whenever you hit return to create a new paragraph, it adds a margin to the bottom of the previous paragraph. So if you stick with your theme’s default design, you’ll have to choose between having that extra space to create a new paragraph or single spacing and indenting everything.
However, there’s another choice. You can style individual paragraphs, and we have some tips for that here: Styling Individual Posts and Pages
For example, you can switch to the text editor and add HTML code like this around your “Publications” title to remove the space underneath it:
<p style="margin: 0;">TEXT HERE</p>That way, you can keep indenting the parts you want to indent under the title.
The other formatting problem is that second set of listings under the title ‘Organizational’ can only be achieved by my using the space bar to get over to that point. On, say, other writing programs, one could use a TAB setting.
The kind of formatting that word processing programs do is a bit different from how web pages are formatted. One difference is that the HTML used to create web pages doesn’t support a TAB button.
If you’d like to have side-by-side lists like that, I recommend creating an HTML table to do it. You can find online tutorials for creating HTML tables, for example here: W3Schools HTML Table Tutorial
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Thanks, again, Rachel, for your prompt and thorough reply. I’ve only ‘dabbled’ with HTML code but will give this a try. ‘Little steps….’
All the Best, Fred
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