Li item on two lines. Second line has no margin - html

Question

I'm currently working on an unordered list containing list items with taglines. I'm having a problem concerning one list item, which is long enough to take up two lines (See image)
I want it so that the second line is aligned with the first line. This is the HTML code i'm using. I used fontAwesome for the check images.
ul {
width: 300px;
}
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.4.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<ul class="fa-ul custom-list">
<li><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw"></i>List item on 1 line</li>
<li><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw"></i>List item on 1 line</li>
<li><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw"></i>This is a list item that actually takes up 2 lines. Looks ugly</li>
</ul>
I already tried to enter multiple in between '2' and 'lines' but that seems like a really bad practice to me. I hope someone can help me with this problem.

Answer 1

This is because the tick is inline content so when the text wraps it will continue to flow as usual.
You can stop this behaviour by taking advantage of text-indent:
The text-indent property specifies how much horizontal space should be left before the beginning of the first line of the text content of an element.
text-indent (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-indent)
By supplying a negative text-indent you can tell the first line to shift a desired amount to the left. If you then specify a positive padding-left you can cancel this offset out.
In the following example a value of 1.28571429em is used because it is the width set on the .fa-fw by font-awesome.
ul {
width: 300px;
}
li {
padding-left: 1.28571429em;
text-indent: -1.28571429em;
}
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.4.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<ul class="fa-ul custom-list">
<li><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw"></i>List item on 1 line</li>
<li><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw"></i>List item on 1 line</li>
<li><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw"></i>This is a list item that actually takes up 2 lines. Looks ugly</li>
</ul>

Answer 2

you can just add this to your ul:
ul {
text-indent:-20px;
margin-left:20px;
}
JSFIDDLE

Answer 3

You could remove the check out of the page flow by setting them with position:absolute
ul {
width: 300px;
}
.fa-fw {
position: absolute;
left: -22px;
}
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.4.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<ul class="fa-ul custom-list">
<li><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw"></i>List item on 1 line</li>
<li><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw"></i>List item on 1 line</li>
<li><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw"></i>This is a list item that actually takes up 2 lines. Looks ugly</li>
</ul>

Answer 4

You can use "display:table" as style for li, and inside create a span with "display:table-cell" styling. Or create corresponding class. Like this:
<li style="display:table"><span style="display:table-cell">text with
all lines indented</span></li>

Answer 5

you can put your text in a div and give float:left to your inner li and div.

Answer 6

ul li{
padding: 10px 0 10px 20px;
text-indent: -1em;
}
add padding and text indent - that moves the text from the li:before.

Answer 7

You can use list-style-position:outside. Do your CSS like this:
ul li {
list-style-position:outside;
... whatever else ...
}
or directly inline:
<li style = 'list-style-position:outside'>stuff </li>

Answer 8

ul li {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
}
ul li:before {
font: normal normal normal 14px/1 FontAwesome;
content: "\f054";
margin-right: 7px;
display: flex;
align-items: flex-start;
margin-top: 2px;
}
<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.2/css/bootstrap-combined.no-icons.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/3.2.1/css/font-awesome.css" rel="stylesheet">
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