Posted by David Graham on 12/19/05 15:58

"David Graham" <david.graham18@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:MYypf.17095$b4.1464@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html#margin-properties
>
> The image illustrating the article on my screen has a yellowish background
> for the the ul element - should be green and blue/purple for the
background
> of the li's - which should be grey. The dashed border on the second li is
> green and this should be black!
> Anyway, it says the content width of the li boxes is calculated top down -
I
> click on the link 'content width' but I don't really get what it is trying
> to tell me. In simple terms please, what dictates how wide this will be?
> thanks
> David
>
Also, printed off the diagram and put my ruler on it and the 'content width
of li' arrow at the top of the diagram does not seem to line up with the
left edge of the Li content boxes!

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