I am trying to format one of my project journal posts like this : [image] but it seems iNat removes the spaces automatically, since it does this : [image] Is there any way I can get the format I want without it looking like a huge mess?

Yada 1 Yada 2 Yada 3 Yada 1 Yada 2 Yada 3 Is one way to do it

so nbsp gets you one space - rather than repeating nbsp lots of times you can us ensp for a double space or emsp for a quadruple space (with the & character of course) - you just had me figuring this out, I wish I’d known it before today!

There are several ways to achieve this but probably the simplest is just to use the html <pre> tag. Just put <pre> before the ‘table’ that you’re trying to create using spaces for indenting and then put </pre> at the end of the table. To get something like: Order Family Genus Spec…

[image] Looks better! thank you! (For context, I made a project to find, store and create information about misidentified plant species and how to distinguish them)

Looks great. Just a small suggestion: I would recommend putting the <pre> tags just around each ‘table’ rather than your whole post, otherwise you will end up with a horizontal scroll bar and sentences of text going off the right-hand side of the screen instead of wrapping: [GS230324152358] The r…

I don’t know for journal posts but in the forum it works if you add hyphens before (it creates lists) : input: - Asterales - Asteraceae - Taraxacum - Taraxacum officinale output: Asterales Asteraceae Taraxacum Taraxacum officinale But DanielAustin’s suggestion is a g…

Formatting in journal post

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