Posted by Norman on 03/06/07 13:28

On Mar 6, 1:18 pm, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit Norman:
>
> > thanks for your reply
>
> By a comprehensive quotation, you indicate lack of comprehensive reading.
>
> > i don't have a url to show as this is on my local development machine,
>
> If you want help from the public, you need to give the public a working
> chance to help you. Minimally this includes the small trouble of uploading
> your demo page onto a web server.
>
> > i am currently re-working thehttp://uktravellist.infosite at the
> > moment the live site uses tables to display the left navigation, i am
> > replacing it with a list.
>
> I'd suggest learning how to use normal mixed case and normal punctuation in
> simple texts before trying to get any further in the path of authoring.
>
> > so i guess to rephrase my question ;)
>
> > on a list-style: none, how can i align the wrapped text so that it
> > sits under the first line?
>
> The question is still obscure, but it sounds like you would actually want to
> have the first line in a list item indented more than the other lines. This
> would be e.g.
>
> ul { list-style-type: none; }
> li { text-indent: 1em; }
>
> (without considering the overall left margins of the <li> and <ul> elements,
> which are a distinct and easily manageable issue)
>
> or - perhaps somewhat clumsier but possibly more robustly (browsers have
> some bugs with text-indent in printing) - with the second rule replaced by
>
> li:first-letter { padding-left: 1em; }
>
> --
> Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


Here is the URL

http://uktravellist.info/information/template.xhtml.en

Any advise on how to make the left navigation aligned when wrapped
will be much appreciated.

Cheers

Norman

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