[WEB4LIB] RE: hanging indents?

[peterson at amigos.org]

I think you have to use margin-left with text-indent in order to get this
to work in CSS.  E.g.,

p {text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 30px; }

Christine Peterson
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> > Is there any way to create a hanging indent on a web page?  We're
> > creating a page on citing in MLA style, and while I'm fairly sure
> > this can't be done, I thought I'd ask the experts.
>
> I don't know any logical way to do it: I'm hoping someone else will know
> one. What follow are some truly horrible kludges shared in a spirit of
> morbid fascination.

In CSS you just set in the style sheet p {text-indent: -20pt;} or what
have you. Or set a subclass of p.