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I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but here goes.
If I add spaces to the beginning of a line,

the text is rendered like this.

Is there a way to have actual spaces in the beginning of a line?

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[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I don’t think markdown supports that, but you might be able to put   in front of the text to force it?

    This is a very long line that’s supposed to be indented but might not be

Edit: yeah it looks like it worked in my client, markdown looks like

    This is a very long line that’s *supposed* to be indented but might not be 
[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you type the sequence   it will be converted to a space and I don't think it'll trigger the code thing.

    This line starts with four of them.

It's not pretty, but it works?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If that one works then would the actual one for a tab work?

Testing one two.

It does! \o/

You don't need 4 things if you just do &TAB; which is how you do indents in a word document in the first place.

Edit: I guess it depends on what you use to view the site. :(

[–] lady_scarecrow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I don't see anything indented on yours though? I do on the one you replied to.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oof. It works in my app (Jerboa) but I just opened the webpage and it doesn't have the indent. :/

Odd... It's literally HTML code. You'd think it'd work on a webpage. 🤷🏻‍♂️