Not likely to change bg color...although I'm half thinking that it may be possible in the browser to do it with an Accessiblitily Style Sheet - haven't tried it though.
| Thanks, Murray, but this will make each line a paragraph by itself. There
| will be too much space between lines, and I will have to use two paragraph
| marks to sepate the stanzas. I want the lines to be separated by line
| breaks. The poem you quote is broken into long sections, so separating the
| sections by a para would be appropriate. But it would not look so good with
| short lines:
|
| <p>'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house<br>
| Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.<br>
| The stockings were hung by the chimney with care<br>
| In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.</p>
|
| I want to indent the second and fourth lines. What I did looks okay as long
| as the viewer does not change the background color. Can he do that? The
| background color is formatted with a style.
|
|
http://www.dipika.org/2004/10/31/21_the_king_of_sweet/index.html
|
| Wally S
|
| | > CSS is your friend.
| >
| > <head>
| > <title>Shakespeare</title>
| > <style type="text/css">
| > <!--
| > p.indent { margin-left:25px; }
| > -->
| > </style>
| > </head>
| > <body>
| > <p>Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks oh, no, it is an
| ever
| > fixed mark or bends with the remover to remove. Admit impediments; love is
| > not love love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, let me not to the
| > marriage of true minds. But bears it out even to the edge of doom.</p>
| >
| > <p class="indent">Oh, no, it is an ever fixed mark or bends with the
| remover
| > to remove. It is the star to every wand'ring bark, love alters not with
| his
| > brief hours and weeks, let me not to the marriage of true minds. Within
| his
| > bending sickle's compass come; but bears it out even to the edge of doom.
| > Admit impediments; love is not love love's not time's fool, though rosy
| lips
| > and cheeks that looks on tempests and is never shaken;.</p>
| >
| > <p>Oh, no, it is an ever fixed mark or bends with the remover to remove. I
| > never writ, nor no man ever loved. Whose worth's unknown, although his
| > height be taken. It is the star to every wand'ring bark, let me not to the
| > marriage of true minds that looks on tempests and is never shaken;. Oh,
| no,
| > it is an ever fixed mark love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
| or
| > bends with the remover to remove.
| >
| > <p class="indent">Admit impediments; love is not love. That looks on
| > tempests and is never shaken; within his bending sickle's compass come;
| > love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks. Oh, no, it is an ever
| > fixed mark if this be error and upon me proved, whose worth's unknown,
| > although his height be taken. Love alters not with his brief hours and
| > weeks, within his bending sickle's compass come; it is the star to every
| > wand'ring bark.</p>
| >
| > --
| > Murray
| >
| > | > > Last night I posted a poem of eight stanzas, each stanza having four
| > > lines.
| > > I made each stanza one paragraph and separated the lines with line
| breaks.
| > > The problem came when I had to indent the second and fourth lines of
| each
| > > stanza. I suppose the standard way would have been to use a transparent
| > > gif
| > > for a spacer, but I did something else. I put an em dash before the line
| > > and
| > > formatted it the same color as the page background. It does seem to be a
| > > Mickey-Mouse way of doing it though.
| > >
| > > What would have been the normal way? a spacer?
| > >
| > > Wally S
| > >
| > >
| >
| >
|
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