[thelist] how to set text-flow in css

[Bruce Wilbur]

Richard Bennett wrote:

> * hello this is
> some long text.
>
> and I'd like this:
>
> * hello this is
>   some long text.
>
> Any idea how to do this with css?

I've used this technique to accomplish what you want.  I can't cite an example because it's an intranet site behind a firewall.  So going by my memory, it's something like this:

.outdentfirstline
{
margin-left: 20px;
text-indent: -20px;
}

See also: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/text.html#propdef-text-indent

Hope that's what you're looking for.

B