Posted by Jonah on May 17, 2101 at 14:32:07:
In Reply to: Re: Using posted by Heeten Choxi on May 17, 2101 at 12:07:10:
Aha, you've found one trick with this bulletin board! You can encode postings in html. That's how I can make this word italic. So if you type <blockquote> you actually get a blockquote. To indicate greater-than/lesser-than symbols on the bulletin board, you have to actually type &lt; and &gt;
Do use blockquotes as you need. I use either no <br> or one <br> before and after a blockquote, depending on how many spaces I want. The one thing to remember is that a blockquote is not an "inline" formatting element, meaning that the browser will automatically insert one carriage return both before and after a blockquote.
If you just want to indent the left margin only, you can use <dl>, <ol>, or <ul>.
Or if you want to be exact about the size of the indent, you can embed it in a table, e.g. <table align=center cellpadding=10 width=90%> where you can control cellpadding and table width to control the exact whitespace above and to the sides of the paragraph.
-J