Poetry Classes: Blockquote vs Div?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Jellby

The 3em is for indenting wrapped lines, it's cancelled by the negative text-indent. As long as you can distinguish wrapped lines from double-indented lines, it should be fine.

Yes, I do know what the 3em is for. It's still way too large. 1.5em works well and is not too large.

[Jellby]

Forgot to say that I don't care about phones

[JSWolf]

3em is still too large on a 7" eInk screen.

[Tex2002ans]

On poetry? See my posts in:

• 2021: "Problems with page breaks/blank pages/line spaces" (Post #32)
  
  • I give an example of my typical poem/stanza code + explain it in detail.
• 2022: "Remove blank pages" (Post #9)
  
  • Towards the veeeeeeeeeeeery bottom, I explain why you may want to use "page-break-inside: avoid" in your stanza CSS.

Originally Posted by Turtle91

1. You should not make choices of html tags based on the way it looks, but by what the tag is meant to define:

Originally Posted by Jellby

By the way, I no longer use <p> for each line, I use just another <div> or <div class="line">, verse lines are not paragraphs.

And I use <p class="line">.

This is one of the extremely rare cases where me and Jellby disagree.

Side Note: You see that 2021 post where I mentioned the "<p> vs. <div>" poetry "debate"?

Jellby is the one I was (secretly) referencing!

(Of course, me and him still agree on 99.9% of all ebook information. If he says it, trust him. )

<div class="line"> is perfectly fine too... but bleh!!! Next up, he's going to be saying:

<div class="copyrightline">©2022 FirstName LastName</div>

... because a copyright year "isn't a paragraph"!!!