[thelist] Hanging indent

[Olly Hodgson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "rudy" <r937 at interlog.com>
Subject: Re: [thelist] Hanging indent


> actually, olly, the page is hugely interesting -- it's about BIKES!!

:-)

> anyhow, about your hanging indent...
>
> you have two choices -- put that stuff in a table with bullets in the left
> column valign top and the items in the right column, or put back your
> <ul>..</ul> tags and adjust the whitespace above and below the entire list
> with css
>
> since you are generate the <LI> with a document.write, changing the design
> to a nested table will be hard, even harder than normal
> (by the way, that whole moreover news feed disappears if javascript is
> turned off)

I know. I will probably get around to learning a server side language and
use their XML feed at some point. My current (free) host doesnt support that
sort of thing unfortunately...

> as for the whitespace, it will be some combination of padding and/or
> margin, and you may have to apply it to the LI as well as the UL

Okeydoke. I'll try that before the tables thing.

> remember to check what you do in several browsers, because padding and
> margin are not universally interpreted the same way

As always :-)

Thanks for your help,
Olly.