Controlling Text inside a div

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Hello all,

need some help controlling text within a div, the problems I am having are these:

  1. I am placing text inside a div that is relatively positioned within a container div. I wanted to use the indent property but found that as soon as I hit <br/> the indent disappears…is there any way around this?

  2. Ok so I simply positioned the div 50px to the left so I wouldn’t have to indent the text, however how to I set the text to wrap to the dimensions of the div? i.e how can I stop the text from just going across the entire page? I want it to wrap at the edge of the div.

  3. When I hit <br/> this seems to increase the size of the div. I want to be able to set the size of the div, and then if there is overflow text, I want a scroll bar to appear. Now I have used overflow:scroll but this doesn’t really seem to be working well as the text still is not confined to the dimensions of the div.

Any help would be much appreciated…thanks gurus!