Imagine you have a snippet of text that needs to be included in your file using
<?php echo $text_excerpt; ?>
. It's quite simple to indent the first line of text within a block of text.
If you want the outcome to resemble:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vestibulum ut malesuada sem, in malesuada sapien. Vestibulum vitae posuere odio. Sed magna nisi, euismod sit amet euismod non, imperdiet vitae urna. Cras eu pulvinar neque. Suspendisse vestibulum fermentum quam, non consequat dolor auctor vel. Cras sed quam est.
Just follow these steps:
<span style="text-indent: 50px;">
<?php echo $text_excerpt; ?>
</span>
Alternatively, another method involves:
<span>
<?php echo $text_excerpt; ?>
</span>
Now, if you wish to achieve a layout like:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Vestibulum ut malesuada sem, in malesuada sapien. Vestibulum
vitae posuere odio. Sed magna nisi, euismod sit amet euismod non,
imperdiet vitae urna. Cras eu pulvinar neque. Suspendisse vestibulum fermentum quam, non consequat dolor auctor vel. Cras sed quam est.
How can you do this WITHOUT altering the content of $text_excerpt; itself? Splitting the text into chunks or resorting to complex Javascript functions is not ideal. Neither is manually adding
<br>
tags throughout the text. Maintaining consistency across thousands of forum comments would be overwhelming. Ensuring proper text wrapping without relying on extreme JavaScript methods is key.