Indent Paragraph

[Rakdos Defiler]

I noticed that you can't have spaces in the beginning of the thread of after like you go to a new paragraph. Well I'm writing online novels, and I was wondering if it wouldn't be too much of a hassle to allow it have specifically 3 spaces at the begginning of a paragraph. I mean this will help all sections/posts so you can see where something new begins other then taking up extra room pressing enter twice. It's not a big deal it'd just be something that'd help a bit.

 

[Samuraid]

This is less of a forum issue and more of an HTML issue. HTML does not display spaces (ASCII 32) preceding a line of text.

You might try using an invisible spacer image to get the desired effect.

 

[Rakdos Defiler]

O ok, I didn't relise that. Any suggestions for the spacer? Because I don't have photoshop anymore, and I doubt paint could solve the problem unless i knew the percentage/amount of red green and blue in the background of posts.

 

[Infinitynexus]

Rakdos, make a fully transparent gif, just download Easy Gif Animator 4, itll let u do that really fast... Make like a 1x10 pixel gif file that is 100% transparent, effectively invisible.

 

[Earth-Fury]

would it be all to difficult to implement a tag which translates to a <p> with text-indent: 20px; for CSS?

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

Go work out how many pixels 3 lines is and I'l whip one up for ya.

 

[Wolverabid]

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Any suggestions for the spacer?

One possible (temporary and ony partially effective) solution is to specify a font shade that creates "invisible text." At peresent it's effective only because the Night Elf forum theme is the only style available for use. So try:

[color=#332c29]colored text[/color]

colored text
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Paragraph.

colored text
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Paragraph.

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Thanks Pyritie!

 

[DesKaladA]

I do think the fastest and most reliable solution in the end would be to just implment a (<p>) tag for vB

 

[Wolverabid]

ZypherXII and I set our minds together and devised a solution to the paragraph indent problem. Just wrap ["p"] (WITHOUT the "") around a paragraph and the first line will be indented. The tag may be used multiple times. This vBulletin tag is still in the beta test phase.ZypherXII and I set our minds together and devised a solution to the paragraph indent problem. Just wrap ["p"] (WITHOUT the "") around a paragraph and the first line will be indented. The tag may be used multiple times. This vBulletin tag is still in the beta test phase.

 

[Rakdos Defiler]

sweet thx i'll try it out
I don't understand the space after paragraph, i mean there isn't a space between every paragraph. i'm reading my book Tides of Blood right now =P Guess still working on it also? Made my text Hello only lol

 

[DesKaladA]

umm well thats done

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

How about to return the delete last message if urs option? Even if it gets older than 5 hours.

 

[~Void~]

O ok, I didn't relise that. Any suggestions for the spacer? Because I don't have photoshop anymore, and I doubt paint could solve the problem unless i knew the percentage/amount of red green and blue in the background of posts.

Use "INDENT /INDENT"

 

[Hakeem]

HTML can display whitespace.

<SPAN STYLE="WHITE-SPACE:PRE;">   Hello.</SPAN>

EDIT: Oh, look, there it is.

[Sandbox terminated.]

 

[Samuraid]

HTML can display whitespace.

<SPAN STYLE="WHITE-SPACE:PRE;">   Hello.</SPAN>

EDIT: Oh, look, there it is.

Thanks, I'll add that to the collection of cool CSS things.

But for the record, that is technically accomplished by CSS and not directly by HTML. Even so, it works.

 

[Wolverabid]

 

[BoneBreaker]

Wolv, have a look at this link. Theres useful codes =)

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=78828

 

[Hakeem]

This is indentation with 4 spaces.
And here is indentation using a tab, if you can type it.

I nominate this tag along with [BROKE] for the exemption of nl2br.
Regular line breaks:
[BROKE="Line
Break."]Line
Break[/BROKE]
Haxing:
[BROKE="Line
Break."]Line
Break[/BROKE]

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

Hmmm... Not sure how (alt+0182) ¶ works.. But I think it looks neat!

¶Hi
I'm Fred

 

[Teh_Ephy]

When the proper setting is activated, ¶ (also alt+20) is the character displayed in Microsoft Word (and possibly other word processors) that indicates a full line break, which interrupts a sentence and indicates the start of a new paragraph, and is frequently used as shorthand for the word paragraph.
If you hold down shift and enter, you get a character which is an arrow pointing down, but turning left. That character will cause a visual line break, but the text before and after it are treated as the same sentence; formatted indentations for the first line of a paragraph will not apply to that line, and the first word after the character will not automatically be capitalized.

Edit: I just looked at this post, and I used the [keepspace] tags instead of . It doesn't wrap text to the post.

 

[Hakeem]

You can compensate for the missing wrapping by just putting the [SP] tag around only the spaces you want to not collapse. Then you can have your very, very, very, long lines with indentation and wrapping. But make sure you have some non-whitespace in it, or it'll collapse the tag no nothing.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

[keepspace] did not work for me. Not only did it not indent my paragraph, but it also stopped it from wrapping. I compensated by using instead of [keepspace].