WordPress.com Forums » Topic: how do i indent the first lines of paragraphs? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-indent-the-first-lines-of-paragraphs WordPress.com Forums » Topic: how do i indent the first lines of paragraphs? en Mon, 20 May 2013 09:13:39 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 dikf on "how do i indent the first lines of paragraphs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-indent-the-first-lines-of-paragraphs#post-1149331 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:21:36 +0000 dikf 1149331@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks again. I've put in the slashes. This has been a great lesson: you're a great teacher!

]]> justpi on "how do i indent the first lines of paragraphs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-indent-the-first-lines-of-paragraphs#post-1149325 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:03:51 +0000 justpi 1149325@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome, but again you made the mistake of adding opening instead of closing tags. Check my example again: all the span tags that come after the word must have a slash.

]]> dikf on "how do i indent the first lines of paragraphs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-indent-the-first-lines-of-paragraphs#post-1149318 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:33:14 +0000 dikf 1149318@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for all the clarity, too. Yes, it all works fine now!

]]> justpi on "how do i indent the first lines of paragraphs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-indent-the-first-lines-of-paragraphs#post-1149306 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:58:19 +0000 justpi 1149306@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome. For more clarity, "delete all the code you have added" should have been "delete all the opening and closing div and p tags you can see in the Text editor".

]]> dikf on "how do i indent the first lines of paragraphs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-indent-the-first-lines-of-paragraphs#post-1149286 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:26:43 +0000 dikf 1149286@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ thanks, that sounds very clear.
i'll try it out soon & will let you know how it goes.

]]> justpi on "how do i indent the first lines of paragraphs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-indent-the-first-lines-of-paragraphs#post-1149284 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:16:31 +0000 justpi 1149284@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ a) Code tags come in pairs - an opening tag that says start this here, and a corresponding closing tag that says end this here:
<p>CONTENT</p>
<div>CONTENT</div>
<div style="text-indent:30px;">CONTENT</div>

Your page is misbehaving because in some cases you added the opening tag but forgot to add the closing tag or added an opening tag again instead of a closing one.

b) In your first reply you said you want the 'traditional' book look, so I assumed you meant you want it throughout. Now you're saying you want a mixture of the two styles. In that case you must use my other solution ("single line indents"). So:
Delete all the code you have added. For regular paragraphs (blank line, no indentation) enter a paragraph break with no code at all. For old-style paragraphs (indentation, no blank line) enter a line break then enclose the first word in this code:
<span style="margin-left:30px;">WORD</span>

]]> dikf on "how do i indent the first lines of paragraphs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-indent-the-first-lines-of-paragraphs#post-1149033 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:32:01 +0000 dikf 1149033@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for your willingness to check! The page is
http://dikflantz.wordpress.com/my-mothers-memoirs/marriage/

Two problems occur: 1. sometimes the unwanted line-space remains;
2. In places where I do want the extra line space & no indent, I find the first line gets indented &/or no extra line space. I've tried to resolve this by adding the <p> code, but it doesn't help.

I'll so appreciate it if you can show me how to get this right!

]]> dikf on "how do i indent the first lines of paragraphs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-indent-the-first-lines-of-paragraphs#post-1149027 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:25:53 +0000 dikf 1149027@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for your willingness to check! The page is
http://dikflantz.wordpress.com/my-mothers-memoirs/marriage/

Two problems occur: 1. sometimes the unwanted line space remains.
2. Pars that I want to appear with a line space before them & without an indent now get indented, sometimes without the line space! I've tried to resolve this by adding the <p> code in such places, but it doesn't work.

I'll so appreciate your explaining what I should do to get this right.

]]> justpi on "how do i indent the first lines of paragraphs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-indent-the-first-lines-of-paragraphs#post-1148520 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:28:07 +0000 justpi 1148520@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ My solution works as described. If it didn't, then you made some mistake. But my code isn't found anywhere on your front page. If you tried it in a static page, link or point to that page so I can check what's wrong.

]]> dikf on "how do i indent the first lines of paragraphs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-indent-the-first-lines-of-paragraphs#post-1148396 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:06:19 +0000 dikf 1148396@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for this too, justpi. But I still have a problem with this solution: I do want 'the “traditional” book look (line break but no blank line)" & i've applied the code to each separate paragraph, but although this does indent the first line, it still leaves a blank line before it! Could you tell me what to do to avoid this?

]]> justpi on "how do i indent the first lines of paragraphs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-indent-the-first-lines-of-paragraphs#post-1148361 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:29:28 +0000 justpi 1148361@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ See here:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/formatting-text-pt-2/

]]> dikf on "how do i indent the first lines of paragraphs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-indent-the-first-lines-of-paragraphs#post-1148347 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:04:44 +0000 dikf 1148347@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ how do i indent the first lines of paragraphs? (I've seen that there are codes that can be entered between the <head> tags of a document, but I don't see such tags in the Text Editor). Is there a simple way?

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