[songwrtr]

Whenever I type in stuff in these forums, it looks nice and neat in the message box before I post. When my post appears, it's a run-together garbled mess. No indents etc.. If I put something in a column, when it posts, it's all run together into a bunch of strung together words. What's the secret to making what you type in the message box appear the same way in your post? I've even tried typing in my word processor and then copying and pasting to the message box, but no dice.

[cwolfe98]

I haven't been able to do that either.


I do know that you can enter txt on seperate lines, but no indentation or columns.
[list=1][*]You can enter a list.[*]Just press the "List" button.[*]It is above where you enter your text.[/list=1]

Can anyone else show how to keep all the text from running together??

[perris]

preview your post before you submit it

[songwrtr]

I do preview before I post and it looks so pretty that I could just kiss myself. Then I post and th-p-p-p-bt!, right into the toilet. I'll try the list button next time (can't believe I missed that). I think that's what I'm looking for anyway. It's a lot easier to read and understand when I can list what I need help with or when I offer help in these forums.

[buck52]

Howdy songwrtr

I think
that if
you press
enter the
text will
start a
new line
without indentation.

I type about a line plus a couple of words after it automaticlly carriages before I
press enter if I don't want the text to run all the way to the right

Are you using the Preview Reply button to preview your post

I agree though...still kind of a crap shoot to make the post look nice

Hope I'm not missing what your saying

buck

[Fyzbo]

How about <b>HTML</b> tags<br>
<i>will they work</i>?<br>
You can use the "br" to start new lines<br>
The list "ul or ol" to do lists or even just indentations<br>
<ol>
These<br>
Words<br>
Are<br>
Indented<br>
</ol><br><br>
"ol
These br
Words br
Are br
Indented br
/ol"

all of the tags need to be enclosed in brackets<>, I couldn't show that because it would keep doing what the tags were meant to do. The /ol is a closing tag, if you want to put numbers ahead of the items an li tag is used at the begining of each line and no br is needed. This might help?

[songwrtr]

Thanks guys. I'll give it a try the next time I need to do stuff like I've mentioned. This should keep me busy for a while, so nobody needs to respond any more. Thanks again.

[mischiefschild]

Hi all,
<hr>
<pre> I think that you will find that this works, If the fact that it all
runs together really bothers you that much.
you can use html code in here.
so try it once.
</pre>
<pre>
Ok, now I am using [ ] in place of the<> as to not interupt the codeing.
so this is how it is... Ex:

[pre] Insert text
where-ever
and as long as it is
inbetween the tags it will look how ever
ou type it. [/pre]
</pre>
<hr>
.. The only problem with this is the small text.
the pre tag uses fixed-width font, so to make it all
look right, just hit return and add ... in front of new
paragraphs.
...Kinda like this and it all looks ok.


..Hope this help you all

<font color="purple">MC</font>


[edit¹]

[songwrtr]

OK. Done deal. Next time I'll try it.

[hewee]

<pre> Test
1 a
2 b
3 c </pre>