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[Will1987]

Hi,
  Seems like an odd question but I'm having a little trouble with text in site builder. I'm talking just ordinary text you're typing into the box in the admin panels of sitebuilder. I want to have a numbered or bulleted list like this:

1.   wsdgf isdhkb asldkfhasdkljfh as;odifhjas;fh
      shgasjkgfsa sljfhgskjgf asldfjkghasjkfhg
     asjdhgfjkshgflkjf

2.  aosifgasdaskjfhgaskgf sdjfhg akjsgf l;sjh
     kjskfjgasdf  askdfhsadkhf askljhsdgfh
     skldhjhsdkjhg

3.  kasdgfasdghfg s;hsajkldhas lskjdfhsa
     skjhgasjkhgsa skjfhg saljkdhg
    asldkas ksdfljkasgh sjkdfljsa sdihf

It's not really WYSIWYG. The thing is I want to have the numbers off to the left like that and the text all in one block to its right. in microsoft word there's a function that does that but here I cant find it so I just tried to do it by pressing return and scooting the curser over, etc. It screws up the formatting when I do that and  the wrods are all over the place.

Anybody know how I can do this?

Will

The above was written first but now I've had so much trouble with this damn thing, only just working with text, that Ive got to get some kind of help here. This thing is exteremely unstable. I leave it alone for a little while and things jUST HAPPEN by themselves for no apparent 4reason. Spaces between a heading and text dissapear. Whole blocks of text dissapear when I save and then click F5 to refresh it. i came to a subpage that was fine before only to find that somehow in my absence text had gotten disarranged and something that was orange colored was now orange colored on a white background (which it wasn't before). This damn thing is haunted. Anybody who knows anything about this please respond.

thanks a lot,
Will

[tpog]

How about inserting a table and formatting the text in the table?

Is there a link to see the other issues?

[Will1987]

I'm not great with this stuff. Inserting a table means figuring all that out and I dont want downtime on my site. Its: www.telepathicart.110mb.com. You'll see the strange formatting on that first list. I'd be happy right now if I could just get the text to be there in nice blocks without having to retype the whole thing. The trouble seems to be that this is not wysiwyg. The way it looks in the admin panel is NOT the way it looks on the web page. The way it looks in microsoft word is generlaly the way it looks on the admin panel but, again, not on the web site. This can't be that hard. Is there some way I can just make blocks of text with numbers to the left so I see how it looks in the admin panel and it looks that way on the page?

thanks a lot,
Will

[tpog]

If you're copy / pasting from word to site builder, it's not going to keep the same formatting.

Think you either need to create a numbered list in Site builder or create a table and insert the text into it.

The table will be easier to format, if you need to change the format of the numbered list you'd need to start looking at inserting html codes into the page.

[Will1987]

could you tell me how a table would allow me to do the numbered list? The formatting in the table seems to be about the same. If I could move the table and put it wherever I want I could put the numbers to the side of it but its not allowing me to do that.

thanks,
Will

[super4u]

You should use an ordered list... http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_lists.asp
An ordered list starts with the <ol> tag. Each list item starts with the <li> tag.
<ol>
<li>Your first text</li>
<li>Your second text</li>
</ol>

If you really want to use a table...
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp

Your best bet is to build your page offline on your own PC,
then when you are happy with it, upload it with an FTP client like FILEZILLA
You should never use an editor like WORD to build webpages, just use notepad.

[tpog]

For Site Builder though...

The table won't allow you to create a numbered list, but you'll have more control over how you format it. One column can contain the numbers, the second column can contain the text.

For example http://www.gopt.110mb.com/index.php?p=1_4_poc