Knowing nothing about CSS or HTML, I was able to get a text field to respond to a basic CSS definition. However, it doesn't seem to pay any attention to the margins and indents. Feature request anyone?
Bob On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Hi List: > > Was hoping someone here might have some uncanny insight into how to solve a > text formatting dilemma... > > Basic problem: I need to create two levels on indenting in a block of text, > but the text needs to always be directly editable and may span multiple > lines. > > About a month or so back I mentioned an app I was working on that was sort > of a poor man's PowerPoint, and was trying to mimic the bullet formatting > one can apply to text. I've been asked to implement two levels > bulleting/indenting, something like the following (hope it comes across): > > • Main Bullet Item 1 that spans > multiple lines > • Main Bullet Item 2 > - Secondary Bullet 1 > - Secondary Bullet 2 which > spans multiple lines > - Secondary Bullet 3 > • Main Bullet Item 3 > > I can accomplish the first level bullet/indenting using a combination of > margins and firstIndent, but I can't figure out a way to handle second > level. To date I've been using HTMLtext and non-breaking spaces to pad the > secondary level lines, but arbitrarily adding spaces to live editable text > is messy, and I can't find a way to align a padded+wrapped line with the > line above it. It occurred to me maybe there's some non-typeable, > non-selectable character I could use for padding, but I only know of > formFeed/lineFeed characters which wouldn't help here. > > And the thing that really makes this difficult is the fact that the text > needs to be directly editable by users (cannot be in a locked field). > > Any suggestions on how I might tackle this? > > Thanks & Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX Design > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution