I was trying to set some lines in a post, like lyrics or a quote, "indented", that is, where they don't go all the way to the far left margin, for a few consecutive lines. In my web-based e-mail account where I store drafts, I just merely hit the space bar at the bottom of the keybad the amount of spaces I want to move the first character in a line over to the right, and it works fine.
In typing programs, the tab button can also be used to accomplish this.
However, I just noticed that on the forums here, no matter how many times I hit the space bar at the bottom of the keypad, even though when I type it LOOKS like it is letting me start a line more to the center, when I hit "Preview" or "submit", the text is all the way to the left on that line, ignoring the fact that I actually used the bar to start the line more towards the right.
I tried the tab button, but that doesn't seem to work here or in my web-based e-mail, only in a typing program.
Please bear with me if there is an obvious solution that I am overlooking, as I am not a computer or technical expert. I was unable to indent using the spacebar on this forum, in both Internet Explorer and Firefox.
So I fooled around with a lot of the buttons on the posting form. I tried the "center" button but that didn't line up the left side of each line directly underneath each other like I wanted. It centered EACH line relative to the center of the screen, and skipped lines, like this:
I tried the "list" button:
- I tried the list button, but unfortunately, that too seemed
- To sometimes skip lines, although not always,
- And I am not sure why it does this -
- But in any case, it only indents the lines
- A slight bit
The only "solution" I could find to the overall problem for now was to use characters colored white, like periods, to trick the system into thinking the line had characters in it all the way to the left, and then go back to the regular color at the spot where I wanted the line to start, but the dots ARE visible, especially on every other post in a thread which has a darker background:
..........Here I am using ten white dots
..........To make line 1, 2, 3, and 4 start indented,
..........Directly below each other like I intended
..........Without skipping lines
If anyone knows of a better solution to this, please let me know!
Thanks,
David