Inserting space beside text

[Yeah]

I would like to use CSS to insert x amount of space to the left of a
repeating blurb of text (coded with a CSS SPAN tag).

How would I go about doing that?

[Mark Parnell]

Re: Inserting space beside text

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, Yeah
<yeah@positive. net> declared in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets:
[color=blue]
> I would like to use CSS to insert x amount of space to the left of a
> repeating blurb of text (coded with a CSS SPAN tag).[/color]

padding-left: 0.5em;

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[ironcorona]

Re: Inserting space beside text

Mark Parnell wrote:[color=blue]
> Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, Yeah
> <yeah@positive. net> declared in
> comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets:
>[color=green]
>> I would like to use CSS to insert x amount of space to the left of a
>> repeating blurb of text (coded with a CSS SPAN tag).[/color]
>
> padding-left: 0.5em;[/color]

or of course

margin-left: 0.5em;


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[Mark Parnell]

Re: Inserting space beside text

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, ironcorona
<iron.corona@gm ail.com> declared in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets:
[color=blue]
> margin-left: 0.5em;[/color]

For some reason I was thinking that margin didn't apply to inline
elements, but the specs say otherwise.

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