How to indent a few lines in Markdown markup?

Question

I want to write a few lines of text. They should be formatted normally except each line should start at the 6th column. I.e. I don\'t want the code block formatting rule to

Answer 1

One of the problems with starting your line with non-breaking spaces is that if your line is long enough to wrap, then when it spills onto a second line the first character of the overflow line with start hard left instead of starting under the first character of the line above it.

If your system allows you to mix HTML in with your markdown, a cheep and cheerful way of getting an indent is like this:

My indented text goes here, and it can be long and wrap if you like.
And you can have multiple lines if you want.

Semantically within your HTML it is nonsense (a UL section without any LI items), but all browsers I have used just happily indent what's between those tags.