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When good lists go bad

First off, the css-discuss mailing list now has a searchable online archive. It’s high traffic, extremely high quality and will almost certainly already contain an answer to your CSS problems.

Here are a few gems I discovered there regarding the problems with styling lists, particularly indentation and bullet positioning:

Read this first: a succinct overview of the problem and the solution:

home.deds.nl/~thebox/ghost/list.html

Eric Meyer’s; more technical, but insightul, take on the matter:

www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/list-indent.html

Finally a brilliantly complete explanation of the whole styled list thing:

www.subotnik.net/style/list-box-test.html

Oh, and remember to update your Google toolbar. Hackers could be using it to get inside your machine RIGHT NOW.

15 August 2002

§ Web standards · Google

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    A List Apart now has a great article on taming lists: www.alistapart.com/stories/taminglists/ by Mark Newhouse.

    Rich
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    9 Oct 2002
    09:10 GMT

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