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Subject:Re: Best way to indent in HTML From:Lisa Higgins <Lisa -dot- Higgins -at- LEVEL3 -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:14:05 -0700
DOH! Never mind. This will only indent the first line, as considerate and
attentive listmember David Castro pointed out to me.
I wasn't paying attention, plus I was really, really drunk when I wrote
that.
Sorry.
> It probably won't rip the time-space continuum and open a
> portal to some
> sort of Alternate Universe where Spock and Kirk have little goatees or
> anything, but different browsers might format these things in
> unexpected
> ways.
>
> You could do this:
>
> <H1>Heading</H1>
> Bunch of text.
> Bunch of text.
>
> ...which has a little more 'integrity,' if you know what I
> mean. I mean, not
> to say that you aren't just a despicable human being for
> trying to use HTML
> to format text, but at least that uses a formatting
> concession of HTML,
> rather than violating the sanctity and integrity of decent
> and virtuous
> conceptual tags such as <BLOCKQUOTE> and <UL>.
>
> Also, you're being very clear about what you want here, and
> as such, you can
> be fairly certain that pretty much every browser will
> interpret it the same
> way.
>
> Your Friend,
> The Evil Lisa, with a little goatee and a black turtleneck.
