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Stylin' in CSS

Wanted to know if there was anyway I could implement anything like this:

<blockquote style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Text that I want to display with groovy hanging indent<br />
As if it were a poem perhaps<br />
Or something like that.</blockquote>
Currently all I get is a message saying I can't use the style attribute with the blockquote tag (or the span tag either, which rather defeats the purpose of allowing a span tag at all!). Any responses?

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deleted user [Visitor]
http://florian.blog.de
2005-10-20 @ 19:30

We are looking into that.
The span style tag poses some problems because it can be exploited to include direct relocations to other sites. This is being exploited by spam sites quite a bit so we are looking for ways to prevent it. It is on our agenda.

alasdairgfalasdairgf [Member]
2005-10-20 @ 21:35

OK, I can see why that's necessary. Sometimes I live in an idealistic world that means I don't consider what the *ssholes might do!

Obviously I know nothing about how you handle the parsing of the XHTML that your members enter in their posts, but surely it's possible to spot a URL in a style attribute or block and then just remove the offending attribute? Just a thought. Thanks for responding so fast in any case.

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