Re: [Tiki-users] How to indent text

Volker Wysk <post-hhF2Jplw28UoZk/[email protected]> Sun, 16 May 2021 16:49:14 +0200

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Am Sonntag, den 16.05.2021, 14:32 +0100 schrieb Jonny Bradley via TikiWiki-
users:
> Hi Volker
> 
> Curious on https://doc.tiki.org/Wiki-Syntax#Indent it says that worked up
> to tiki 13...
> 
> The syntax still works, as
> 
>     ;:2nd example of indented text
> 
> Produces
> 
>     <dl><dt></dt><dd>2nd example of indented text</dd></dl>
> 
> aha, in bootstrap definition lists are only formatted like that if you add
> row and col classes to them
> 
>     
> https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.6/content/typography/#description-list-alignment
> 
> So one fairly safe solution would be to add these grid classes to the
> <dl><dt><dd> elements, which would restore that indentation, but do we use
> a 3/9 split, or 2/10? It seems a bit arbitrary... and would change the
> look of pages using them for the past 10 releases :(
> 
> There doesn't seem to be a modern html/css way of doing this properly and
> list-style-type:none with a single item doesn't seem great semantically to
> me - 

Yeah.

> in the old days we used to use <blockquote> but that went in html5...
> 
> Maybe use non-breaking spaces? This seems to work ok
> 
>     ~hs~~hs~~hs~~hs~Example of indented text
> 
> Maybe?

This won't work when the line is long and gets wrapped at the right margin.

Looks like I have to use the HTML plugin. That's not optimal, but it will
work...

Cheers,
Volker

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