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Did you know that you can do indentation? You can't do it here next to your avatar image, probably because of a quirk in the CSS.
Unless you use unicode to do it (see below).
But if the text spills over
past your image and down
to the main body, another
quirk kicks in and totally
lets you indent things. Of
course, the problem there is
that resizing your browser
reflows the text. But if
you force it like this...
- You can indent text using the [list] tag.
- [list]Just wrap the text in tags with nothing else, like this.[ ̸ list]
- [list]You can even us this to span multiple lines and it all
- And you can also start your bullet list in the middle of it
And when you stop, see what happens?
Basically, the [list] tag acts like <ul>, and the [ *] tag acts like <li>. For you HTML types.
still works.
Even if you put blank lines in between the opening and closing tags.
You can't next it, though. Only one indentation allowed!
Of course you can accomplish the same thing using Unicode characters, too.
For example, add a few non-breaking spaces in front.
But you have to do that in front of every line and the text won't wrap right...unless what you want is an indentation at the start of a paragraph. Which is pretty cool, though it may not be what you want, and it may also be too much like work. But I am not your dad. I am not here to tell you what to do or which was is better. Just that there are ways to do it.
Of course, I think we'd all be a lot happier if [ul] and [/ul] existed. Which they don't. :(
If you're a rebel, you can even do a bullet list without a list.
But don't because it really, really screws things up.
See how it forced everything to indent from that point on? The problem is you can't turn it off.
- But it does let you start nesting indentation. So I lied earlier. Sort of. But it may not be worth it.
None of which would be necessary if the forums supported a [pre] tag.
Yeah. The list of "wish it had"s is not long, but there are some painful omissions.