Indents (blockquote)

An indent, technically referred to as a blockquote, is used to indent quoted text.  Be 

careful though, as with most web design elements, blockquoted text may not always 

appear indented.  It's up to the browser as to how it is displayed to the viewer.

To adjust the indentation of text, first select the text, if necessary, and then to increase 

an indent, use Text Indent, or to decrease an indent, use Text Outdent with any of 

the following methods:

Click the icons on the Properties panel.

Right click (Win) or control+click (Mac) and choose either element from the List 

option on the shortcut/contextual menu.

Choose either element from the Text > List menu.

Figure 5 14 Indenting a paragraph

5.5 Lists

You may know them as bulleted and numbered lists, while Dreamweaver MX, and 

HTML in general, refers to them as unordered and ordered lists.  Either way, it's easy 

to apply this paragraph format and adjust its settings.

When considering the html for lists, they are a bit unique in that each individual list 

item is an element (with opening and closing tags) and then the entire list is contained 

within an element (with opening and closing tags).  Also, because ordered and unor 

dered lists affect the entire paragraph, then a paragraph with line breaks, see  Para 

graphs v. Line breaks  on page 48, will be treated as a single list item.

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