Adding horizontal space

  • Bookscrounger

    (@bookscrounger)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    I could not find this solution on the forum, and discussions of it were closed.

    To add horizontal space, in the text editor use the open and close code tags (not smart enough to show the code here, but it’s “open chevron code close chevron, then open chevron slash code close chevron“) and in between the two simply hit the space bar for as many spaces as you need.

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  • CrouchingBruin

    (@crouchingbruin)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Generally it’s not a good idea to hard code spaces when trying to position an object because you need to account for different screen widths. Better to use CSS and set either a margin-left/margin-right or padding-left/padding-right property.

    However, for those times for which you do want to add a few space characters, best to use the escape code for a non-breakable space. That is, add this through your text editor for each space that you want:

     

    That is, an ampersand followed by the characters nbsp followed by a semicolon. So if you wanted five blank spaces in a row, you just put five of those escape characters one after the other:

         

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