Old style indenting

bajaharry
(@bajaharry)

9 years, 5 months ago

My customer wants to be able to do the old style indenting, i.e.

a typing the paragraph and have it wrap so the text aligns with the first word. She does not want it to wrap like this just did. The word ‘not’ should align with the word ‘typing’

Is there a secret keystroke to do this?

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Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)
(@sterndata)

Volunteer Forum Moderator

9 years, 5 months ago

Huh? Can you point to an example of something?

If you want to insert a new line in the editor, use SHIFT ENTER.

Thread Starter bajaharry
(@bajaharry)

9 years, 5 months ago

Yeah the example didn’t come out too clear. Here is an example:

http://www.thebajaponyexpress.com/wp/2016/12/10/2575-121016/

If you scroll down the the ‘Baja Biz’ section you’ll see the customer starts each line with a letter. She wants the paragraph that follow to indent, but the letter must remain on the left margin.

Thank you.

Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)
(@sterndata)

Volunteer Forum Moderator

9 years, 5 months ago

That’s done with CSS.

For example, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2833068/text-indent-after-the-first-line-in-a-paragraph

You’ll have to tag those paragraphs with a style (as a div or spam) or use a shortcode to wrap them to give them a selector to which which you can apply the CSS.

Or, you could use an ordered list:http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_list.asp

To add CSS: If you are using WordPress 4.7, use the “Custom CSS” option in the customizer. If your theme has a custom CSS option, use that to add the CSS shown above. If not, install the plugin Simple Custom CSS. Or, if you have Jetpack installed, enable its Custom CSS module.

Learn the Chrome Developer Tools to help you see and test changes to your CSS.

Thread Starter bajaharry
(@bajaharry)

9 years, 5 months ago

I give up!! How do I put the following code into the css so the indent function works like we want it to.

<p style=”text-indent: -30px; padding-left: 35px;”>

I’ve searched around and nothing I’ve tried works. I don’t want to manually change every occurrence of the Indent.

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