Comments on: Hanging Blockquotes: Implemented

By: Jay Crazzay-Tavee

Jay Crazzay-Tavee — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:56:04 +0000

Dude, gotta say that I think that the lists look sucky like that.
Even if that is be a more logical way to do it, remember that people are not logical and if you’ve spent a lifetime with the list numbers lined up with the paragraph edge then you are gonna find it distracting to see them shifted out now.

By: jevnin

jevnin — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:59:38 +0000

Sudhindra: I’m confused…all the formatting is happening in CSS…is your problem with the blockquote tag?

By: Sudhindra

Sudhindra — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:54:00 +0000

Correction :
‘One of the reasons why tag’ should read
‘One of the reasons why “pre” tag’

By: Sudhindra

Sudhindra — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:52:15 +0000

I fail to see why you need to do this.. even though it is nice. As always one should not use html markup for formatting. with css you will have better control and guarantee of content showing up correctly - aligned, pretty, formatted etc. One of the reasons why tag is not so popular is that it does exactly what you are trying here- include formatting in your markup.

By: Josh Graham

Josh Graham — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:56:55 +0000

Nice technique but I prefer the quote or bullet to be left justified to paragraph text (rather than outset in the left margin).

It still makes it easy to find interesting stuff like lists but doesn’t break the eye line as it scans down the page.

Perhaps give it a try with fully-justified paragraph text and less leading (line spacing) your paragraph text.

The page as you have it reminds me of a COBOL program where most text is in column 8 but yucky things get put in the gutter(/margin).