Posted by David Dorward on 01/31/06 00:22

bbcrock@gmail.com wrote:

> I have several items in a UL/LI relationship. These items are nested
> inside a div. I want to make the items display horizontal

http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/

> based on CSS relationships only

CSS describes presentation, not relationships.

> I read that the way to do this is to use
>
> display: inline;

That is one way. There are several.

> but It's not changing the way the items display at all.

How are you using it?

> Can anyone point me to a really good description of this tag, another tag
> that would move the LI items to a horizontal display

Display is a property, CSS doesn't have tags.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#display-prop

> or good ways to debug CSS?

The DOM Inspector is very useful. A good introduction is available at
http://www.brownhen.com/DI.html - but ignore everything about installing it
as that is rather out of date. It is distributed with Firefox.

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