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Q&A How to control how HTML is copied into the clipboard in plain text form?

I don't really understand what you're asking (I barely know how to spell "CSS"), so maybe this is way off base. However, you can make your own <indent> in a style sheet. Here is how I do it...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭ · edited 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Olin Lathrop‭ · 2025-08-23T22:39:53Z (about 1 year ago)

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I don't really understand what you're asking (I barely know how to spell "CSS"), so maybe this is way off base. However, you can make your own <code><indent></code> in a style sheet. Here is how I do it:
<pre>
indent {
display: block;
margin-left: 2em;
margin-right: 0;
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
background: none;
}</pre>
I also use indentation heavily to show document tree structure hierarchy. I used to us <code><dl></code> to get nested indentation back when that was the only option. The <code><indent></code> defined in the style sheet is much less klunky and works pretty much as expected.

I don't really understand what you're asking (I barely know how to spell "CSS"), so maybe this is way off base. However, you can make your own <code><indent></code> in a style sheet. Here is how I do it:
<pre>
indent {
display: block;
margin-left: 2em;
margin-right: 0;
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
background: none;
}</pre>
I also use indentation heavily to show document tree structure hierarchy. I used to use <code><dl></code> to get nested indentation back when that was the only option. The <code><indent></code> defined in the style sheet is much less klunky and works pretty much as expected.

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Olin Lathrop‭ · 2025-08-23T22:38:38Z (about 1 year ago)

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I don't really understand what you're asking (I barely know how to spell "CSS"), so maybe this is way off base.  However, you can make your own <code>&lt;indent&gt;</code> in a style sheet.  Here is how I do it:

<pre>
indent {
  display: block;
  margin-left: 2em;
  margin-right: 0;
  margin-top: 0;
  margin-bottom: 0;
  background: none;
  }</pre>

I also use indentation heavily to show document tree structure hierarchy.  I used to us <code>&lt;dl&gt;</code> to get nested indentation back when that was the only option.  The <code>&lt;indent&gt;</code> defined in the style sheet is much less klunky and works pretty much as expected.

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