Justify and Indent Articles paragraphs

[goa103]

Hello,

I think you could greatly improve the setup of your Articles by using the 2 following CSS properties :
- text-align
- text-indent

text-align allows you to justify paragraphs and text-indent allows you to indent the first line of a paragraph.

I tried it on "Advanced Image Editing Under the GD Library" and It perfectly worked. The article is far easier to read and well set up. Simply add the following lines to your CSS template :

P
{
	text-indent : 1em;
	text-align : justify;
}

As specify by your "Contributing Feature Articles" rules, all articles use <p> tags "between paragraphs" which means It should work perfectly for all PHP Builder Articles.

Let me know what you think.
JM. Molina

[Mordecai]

A quick HTML-compliant substitute for CSS' text-indent is <dd>.
Theoretically, yes, it works on every article, and it certainly does make them easier to read. When I was working on my article, I indented and replaced the indents with <p>.

This is a good idea.

[laserlight]

hmm... but using <dd> purely for indenting purposes is not really html compliant in the sense that it doesnt quite follow the spirit of the specifications 😉

[goa103]

Originally posted by laserlight
hmm... but using <dd> purely for indenting purposes is not really html compliant in the sense that it doesnt quite follow the spirit of the specifications 😉

Hi,

I agree that's why I joined a CSS style. I avoid using old HTML styles, I think it's better to use HTML or XHTML for the contents and CSS for the styles.

Moreover I am not sure the DD tag is meant for indenting... But text-indent is 🙂... for sure

JM. Molina ~ S.E.S rules (for Eugene ⁾ ~