I had tab indentations for my paragraphs using 8 They were working until I added a center align image using this code: [image] Which messed up the formatting of the post. Tabs, paragraph/image alignment, and a quick underline with CTRL+U similar t…

I’ll give you some quick CSS formatting tips you can use for blog-style posts. you’re doing indentation wrong. the proper way to do it with CSS is like this (indentation standard is 2em): in common.scss [data-theme-indent="indent"] { text-indent: 2em; } in your post: <div data-theme-indent…

[afbeelding] hipp0: Tabs, paragraph/image alignment, and a quick underline with CTRL+U similar to Microsoft Word would really make writing quick articles Understood, but Discourse is not meant to write articles. It’s a forum, not a blog :thinking: In some Discourse forums, articles are publi…

Understandable. Wordpress sucks if you’ve never used it, I have it setup for my blog right now and its just the most janky app. Discourse could reach a wider audience with a few tweaks for writing articles. Since most nice blog writing platforms cost a lot of money per month. Writing on X.com = $…

[afbeelding] hipp0: I had tab indentations for my paragraphs using 8 They were working until I added a center align image using this code: [image] Which messed up the formatting of the post. [image] This works for me. Also, why would you want to indent? virtually nobody …

That code works until you add other code into the post then it breaks everything. If you want to recreate it, add 8 times for paragraph indents then add that code above. It changes the formatting on everything. Book/manuscript formatting is definitely better than this web format style, espec…

[afbeelding] hipp0: That code works until you add other code into the post then it breaks everything. If you want to recreate it, add 8 times for paragraph indents then add that code above. It changes the formatting on everything. that isn’t what your OP said. [afbeelding] hipp0: T…

All I added to my post to create the indentation for the paragraphs. Then I added the code: [image] Which then messed up the formatting of the entire post. It basically turned all the paragraph indents into 4 spaces

Here’s something I just whipped up. This adds buttons to the composer toolbar, including indenting. https://github.com/Lillinator/images-and-text-alignment note: the indent function can apply to multiple blocks with a single click of the button. so you can type multiple paragraphs and then select…

Thanks for this it works well. The Indent I think is off by one space: [image] top line is using your indent and bottom is Any chance to add an Underline to this component? Pretty much solves everything I need so I am thankful for this.

as the footnote says, please fork it and do your own dev on it. i have no actual use for it and only made it to show you how to do these sort of customizations yourself. [Screenshot 2026-01-10 at 2.11.58 PM]

i forgot about this theme component - it might have some of what you are looking for in composer toolbar mods and markdown formatting: [afbeelding] Composer Button Bonanza Theme component warning The richtext (single-pane, WYSIWYG) editor is incomplete an…

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Lilly (Lillian ) 12 januari 2026 om 05:20 12

i forgot about this theme component - it might have some of what you are looking for in composer toolbar mods and markdown formatting:

Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Formatting posts using markdown, BBCode, and HTML Using Discourse reference	16	17618	26 januari 2026
Formatting toolbar Plugin	189	33866	29 maart 2026
Indent paragraph text? Support	12	2412	5 december 2021
HTML/RTF pasting Feature	74	13600	9 maart 2020
Easy way to change preformatted text (code) button? Feature	40	15508	26 juni 2016

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