Posted by Neo Geshel on 04/24/07 05:57

Scott_From_PA wrote:
> The following issue has been plaguing me for the longest time.
>
> I'm having trouble controlling line height for bullets using <ul>
> <li></li> </ul>. This is not usually housed in DIV but in a table (I
> know I know tables are dead)
>
> When I assign a height (height: 22px;) to <li> it seems to be treated
> differently in IE AND FF.
>
> For example, when the text in a bullet point wraps to the second line
> the specified height of 22 stays at 22 instead of expanding to house
> the extra line. The second wrapped line of text then overlaps the next
> bulleted line of text. THIS DRIVES ME NUTZ!
>
> What is the proper way to control line height for lists so that they
> are treated equally for both IE and FF?
>
> Could the issue be that I'm housing the lists within the table instead
> of a <div>?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
>
Ah. You used *height* (http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_dim_height.asp)
instead of the intended *line-height*
(http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_dim_line-height.asp).

Height specifies the author-suggested height of the entire li and its
contents. Line-height specifies the spacing between the lines of text
that the li contains.

By setting height to 22 pixels, you are asking the browser to crunch the
entire li to 22 pixels in hight. Add an overflow:hidden; to the style
sheet, and see what happens. Overflow is closely tied to the physical
dimensions of an element; if that element has more content than its
author-suggested height (or width) can display, the overflow property
tells the browser what to do with that extra content. In your case, it
would hide everything past the first 22 vertical pixels of your li.

I hope this helps.
...Geshel
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