Indent dialogue – not with html code

  • Hi,

    I wrote a short story of which I will write many more in the future, but the dialogues cant seem to be viewed indented, as in a book. I do really want them to be, because now it just looks silly. I have searched far and wide online, but havent found an easy way to JUST indent sentences in which someone speaks, as opposed to an entire paragraph or the first line of a WHOLE paragraph, which I never want. I want to choose my indents per line, as not every line has spoken words in it. How can I do this without going into HTML mode and adding html everywhere manually, which takes forever?

    Thanks so much for your help, it shouldnt be this hard I am sure.
    Best, Andrea.

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  • Hi there @andrea1451986
    You will need to use HTML to identify when someone speaks, there no easy solution for this. So to wrap your content in this HTML
    <div class="ind">Your content here</div>

    and add this

    .ind{
text-indent:20px;
}

    in your custom CSS box under Customize-?Additional CSS

    Let me know if you need additional help with this.

    Thread Starter andrea1451986

    (@andrea1451986)

    Hi @markwaregr, Thanks for your reply. I did not think it would be this devious, that there is no other way to do this than to manually edit every sentence in which someone speaks. That is a lot of work. Is there really nothing else to be done, to make the ‘tab’ button work while typing a post is no option?

    Thanks for now!
    Best.

    Hi,
    I think you should be checking for a third party plugin which will help you get the functionality you want.
    This article might help https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-easily-indent-paragraphs-in-wordpress/ also

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