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

See if this ">" helps:

Line 1
> line 2 
>> line 3

Answer 2

I would use   is a lot cleaner in my opinion.

Answer 3

If you really must use tabs, and you don't mind the grey background-color and padding, <pre> tags might work (if supported):

<pre>
This        That        And             This
That        This        And             That    
</pre>

This        That        And             This
That        This        And             That    

Answer 4

To answer MengLu and @lifebalance's questions in response to SColvin's answer (which I much prefer to the accepted answer for the control it provides), it seems as though you could just target a parent element of the lists when setting the display to none, adding a surrounding element if necessary. So if we suppose we're doing this for a table of contents, we can extend SColvin's answer:

HTML

<nav class="table-of-contents">
  this is a normal line of text
  * this is the first level of bullet points, made up of <space><space>*<space>
    * this is more indented, composed of <space><space><space><space>*<space>
</nav>

CSS

.table-of-contents ul {
  list-style-type: none;
}