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 < and >. Since that's such a pain, let's just use quotation marks for < and >.
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