[Linux-users] HTML wonkiness

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 8/7/07, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > I've got some HTML that I'm working on that isn't working the way I'd
> > expect.  Basically I have a bunch of nested unordered lists.  However,
> > for reasons that I can't figure out, the nested lists aren't getting
> > indented inside the parent list.
> >
> > For an example of the problem see here:
> > http://mail.linux-sxs.org/~netllama/index0.html
> >
> > Anyone have any idea what i'm doing wrong?
> >
> >
> You seem to have some bad css the brackets seem to be nested
> incorrectly... and you could also be inheriting from your other elements
> with margin: 0px etc.
>
> Explicitly define your ul with some css and perhaps you will override
> where it's being inherited from.
>
> body {
>  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
>  font-size: 13px;
>  a:link {color:"#80c41c";text-decoration: underline; }
>  a:visited {color:"#80c41c";text-decoration: underline; }
>  a:hover{color:#80c41c;text-decoration: underline; foreground:#80c41c;background:#000000 }
>  a:active{color:#d4d4d4;text-decoration: underline; }
>  ul.sample {
>         list-style-type: inherit;
>         list-style-image: none;
>         list-style-position: inside; }
> }

I made a few changes to main.css, but that didn't seem to have any
impact.  I guess I don't understand what i'm doing wrong.


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