New formatting snafu

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  1. DzyMsLizzy profile image95
    DzyMsLizzyposted 8 years ago

    Apparently, I may have posted this query/problem:

    http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/78255#post1692114

    in the wrong thread.  I am still puzzled by this problem..about the new capsule formatting, and the forced left margin setting for ALL line breaks.

    It is very frustrating.  I do hope this is a GLITCH that will be fixed, and not a new forced-format.

    Thank you.

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    1. Mark Painter profile image59
      Mark Painterposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      HTML, as rendered by browsers, dearly likes to ignore white space.  However, there is a way to tell it to preserve white space.  You can enclose your text between <pre> and </pre>.  You will have to go into HTML edit mode to do this, though.  Click on the HTML in the upper left corner of the edit box.  Anyway, I hope that helps.

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      1. Aficionada profile image79
        Aficionadaposted 8 years agoin reply to this

        Mark, I have done that numerous times, but I also have problems when I do that.

        One recent problem is that sometimes (as in one of my most recent Hubs) the typeface will show up as Courier Elite or something similar - i.e., closer to what we type in a forum comment box than what appears on the screen after it is submitted (similar to Arial).  It may have been caused by having a different typeface in an original that I copied and pasted - but then I don't know how to get it to match the type of the rest of the capsule.

        Another problem I have is that sometimes after I take pains to get the spacing exactly as I want it, and use the <pre> and </pre> tags with it, if I ever have to go back into the same capsule for any reason, I have to do the spacing all over again - even though the correct tags are there.  Is there any way to get around that?

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      2. DzyMsLizzy profile image95
        DzyMsLizzyposted 8 years agoin reply to this

        Thank you, Mark, that's a good thing to know.

        What I don't know about HTML would fill a set of encyclopedias.  What I do know (font color, B,I,U, and font name {not supported in this forum}) would fit on the proverbial postage stamp.  ;-)

          Do these <pre> - </pre> tags have to be done only at the start and end point of the entire body text, or at the start and end of each line?

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        1. Mark Painter profile image59
          Mark Painterposted 8 years agoin reply to this

          It is probably best to wrap the entire block of text that you want to manually format in a single <pre>...</pre> pair.

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          1. DzyMsLizzy profile image95
            DzyMsLizzyposted 8 years agoin reply to this

            Thank you..I will try that!

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