If its a quote like your example, use <blockquote></blockquote>
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Joshua Street wrote:
What's the recommended practice with indentation?
You can use CSS to indent text with padding and whatever else, but that's a pain if you have a sitewide CSS file, and the text to be indented doesn't sit in any defining container
--- Example 1:
âJust the place for a Snark!â the Bellman cried, As he landed his crew with care; Supporting each man on the top of the tide By a finger entwined in his hair.
may be marked up as a single paragraph (as it corresponds to a single stanza of a poem -- in this case, the first stanza of Louis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark", just for a random example.) as follows:
<p>âJust the place for a Snark!â the Bellman cried,<br /> As he landed his crew with care;<br /> Supporting each man on the top of the tide<br /> By a finger entwined in his hair.</p> ---
As line break tags "<br />" are self-closing elements, I don't *think* it is possible to style with them (e.g. to indent the relevant lines) -- and, even if it were, it would be an ugly solution (assuming I'm even thinking along the right lines, and that it would work at all):
--- Example 2:
<p>âJust the place for a Snark!â the Bellman cried,<br class="indent" /> As he landed his crew with care;<br /> Supporting each man on the top of the tide<br class="indent" /> By a finger entwined in his hair.</p> ---
Assuming the style would apply to the following, and not preceding,
line. This example is untested, and would most likely not work at all. I'm just thinking out loud.
One potential solution (albeit a hideous and bloated one) is simply to use repeated non-breaking space characters:
--- Example 3:
<p>âJust the place for a Snark!â the Bellman cried,<br /> As he landed his crew with care;<br /> Supporting each man on the top of the tide<br /> By a finger entwined in his hair.</p> ---
but that, of course, probably isn't the most desirable solution.
In terms of light markup (but of dubious semantic appropriateness), I've seen definition lists employed to this end quite effectively:
--- Example 4:
<dl> <dd>âJust the place for a Snark!â the Bellman cried, <dl> <dd>As he landed his crew with care;</dd> </dl> </dd> <dd>Supporting each man on the top of the tide <dl> <dd>By a finger entwined in his hair.</dd> </dl> </dd> </dl>
This renders without any problems in visual user agents without styling
required, and is apparently valid XHTML -- but it seems dubious to me. It appears structurally better, at least to me (my eyes follow the
markup flow more easily than the other examples above), but that doesn't
deal with the issue of semantics.
Is it okay to have untitled definitions? Is it okay to use definition lists like this at all? Or, better still, does someone have another solution which I've missed completely?
Thanks in advance,
Joshua Street
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