04.28a Paragraph Indentation in HTML. I've just learned how to do paragraph indentation in HTML. Use a "style sheet" or "CSS" by inserting the following command at the start:


<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!--
  P { text-indent: 2em }
-->
</STYLE>

Then the command "<p>" will insert a blank line and indent two ems worth of blank space.

What about when I want to insert a blank line but don't want indentation? Then I can use "<br>" and "<br>", separated by a blank line. I'm not too steady with that yet.

Somewhere I found the following recommendation:

There is only one book about style sheets worth recommending: Cascading Style Sheets, Second Edition: Designing for the Web, by H�kon Lie and Bert Bos. For once the cover blurb is right: the authors are indeed "the world authorities" on style sheets, being the leaders of the Web Consortium's style sheet project. This is the ultimate reference for Web style sheets.

I didn't find any webpages that were good at explaining style sheets. I did find Webstyleguide.com, one place to look for discussions of web writing style. [in full at 04.04.28a.htm] To return to Eric Rasmusen's weblog, click http://php.indiana.edu/~erasmuse/w/0.rasmusen.htm.