What is the quickest way to indent a block of text with spaces for use within a web browser?

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Published on 2010-12-28T21:35:36Z Indexed on 2010/12/30 1:00 UTC
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I occasionally have the need to indent a block of text with spaces for use within a web browser, for example, when formatting a code block on this site or in a post on Launchpad.

So far I've just done it by hand by copying four spaces to the clipboard and then mashing keys really fast:

?, Home, Ctrl+V (repeat)

What is the quickest way to accomplish this?

Copying and pasting to another program? (Which?)
A Firefox or Chrome browser extension?
A command to directly modify the clipboard contents?
An auto-typing program?

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