would that not indent all the text equally instead of only the first line?Ger wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 6:46 am Or simply do as I wrote earlier and let CSS handle this. Open up your theme'scontent.css
and look forAnd add below:Code: Select all
.postbody .content {
That handles it for everyone writing posts on your board.Code: Select all
text-indent: 50px;
nopeLumpy Burgertushie wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 1:59 pm would that not indent all the text equally instead of only the first line?
Theres no need, the custom BBCode handles it, see this, the OP just wants the first line indented. This is the first time I’ve seen such a request so it seems a bit of an overkill to make a core change or write an extension for this one request.
There are many boards out there with far more uglier formatting than this. I've even seen Comic Sans a while ago. No accounting for taste I'd say.
Well, it is a one line extension pretty much, and the CSS changes proposed in this topic. IMHO we might use the paragraph markup in posts in some future release and then this will be only a CSS change.
well, it doesn't work at all in my custom style. have no idea why.Ger wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:09 pmnopeLumpy Burgertushie wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 1:59 pm would that not indent all the text equally instead of only the first line?
Not really. Many style manuals require it. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/great-in ... on-debate/
Becuase the are not paragraphs in the markup but simply double line breaks. So what this CSS does is indenting the first line of the block, which is theLumpy Burgertushie wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 3:17 pm I can see no reason why that css indents only the first line and not any other lines but I am certainly no expert in css.
<div>
containing your whole post.