Indented text

[Theo R Cwithin]

So the short answer is - unfortunately, no. Formatting options in a messageboard posts are pretty limited. We add the occasional hack to improve them (such as the - somewhat limited - indent tag you're using), but there's only so much we can do without payng someone to write an actual word processor for us.

Hehe, fair enough. I also suspect a lot of that sort of user flexibility in forum software is intentionally limited for security reasons.

In any event, thanks for keeping an eye out for silly questions like this, and for bothering to reply to them!

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[Theo R Cwithin]

a hack solution

Fwiw, here's how I've "circumvented" the odd color change of indented text with a single-element list:

[PLAIN]
[LIST][*][U]A HEADER[/U]
some text goes here
a little more text fills this out a bit
yet more stuff here
and here.[/LIST][/PLAIN]

which looks like this:

• A HEADER
  some text goes here
  a little more text fills this out a bit
  yet more stuff here
  and here.

If you don't mind the lone rogue bullet point hanging out in space, it's a passable solution that mimics indentation while using the color of the rest of the post.

(And for those who didn't know: using {NOPARSE}{/NOPARSE} tags around a block of text makes the vb code visible, allowing all the tags to be viewed as is-- as can be seen in the code block above. Just learned that! )

 

[FireLance]

(And for those who didn't know: using {NOPARSE}{/NOPARSE} tags around a block of text makes the vb code visible, allowing all the tags to be viewed as is-- as can be seen in the code block above. Just learned that!)

Nice! Sure beats some guy in robes holding a staff and proclaiming, "You shall not parse!"