Forgive me if this is incredibly basic, but after researching online for a few minutes, I can't find how to remove the natural indentation from an HTML list. Here is what I have tried with the CSS:
(check out my fiddle)
CSS
ul li {
list-style: none;
margin-left:0;
padding-left:0;
}
HTML
<ul>
<li>There</li>
<li>is</li>
<li>still</li>
<li>an</li>
<li>indent</li>
</ul>
In most browsers, a ul has a padding-left of 40px to allocate spacing for the bullet points.
Simply overwrite the padding. jsFiddle example
ul {
padding:0px;
}
Related
I want to make a list with list-style-type: disc; to list some programs.
But the list-items don't get this "disc" and have scrollbars , i don't know why... look here (Link).
It just should be a list with the disc-icon and no scrollbars on the right for every list-tiem.
html:
<ul>
<li>flashtool</li>
<li>test</li>
</ul>
css:
ul {
list-style-type: disc;
}
The problem is in the declaration of the following class.
main > ul li
{
overflow:auto;
}
The above code will point the first level ul under main. That is perfect. But look at the next selector. It will select all the child-selector of li. This is wrong in your case. It should point only first level of li also. Update the code like below. It will work.
main > ul > li
{
overflow:auto;
}
The reason why your list-style-type is not working is the absence of list-style-position: inside. So your CSS need the following modification:
main > ul li .content > ul {
list-style-type: disc;
list-style-position: inside;
}
in your common.css line number 4
Use
.content ul{
list-style-type:disc;
list-style-position:inside;
}
if you want to remove scrollbar set overflow:hidden
See http://jsfiddle.net/PdZrt/
Basically I have applied the yui reset and base and am the trying to seperately style a ul for a menu. The li's pick up the style but the ul doesn't appear too.
Any ideas?
In the fiddle there should:
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
background-color:Red
There are a couple issues here.
One, that jsfiddle is all on one line and wrapping.
Two, your CSS for the ul reads: .nav-menu ul -- nav-menu IS the ul, thus it should read:
.nav_menu { list-style: none; ... }
The reason the background: red isn't showing up is because the elements inside of the <ul>, the <li>s have float: left set. This removes from from the flow of the <ul> and effectively makes your <ul> have a height of 0. While there is more than one way to solve this problem, the quickest would be to add a overflow: hidden to the <ul>.
Define your .nav-menu li list-style:none; and define your .nav-menu overflow:hidden;
Add this css
.nav-menu{
overflow:hidden;
}
.nav-menu li{
list-style:none;
}
Demo
I've removed the bullet on my lists using
ul li { list-style: none; }
But I'm still getting an indentation on the lists as if the bullet was there.
I need the list-item in the image to be exactly centered.
Browsers ship a default styling attached to <ul/> and <li/> tags
ul,li { list-style-type: none;
list-style-position:inside;
margin:0;
padding:0; }
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
All the answers provided will fix your issue, but I definately recommend that you look in to using a reset stylesheet so you don't have cross browser issues!
The best one (well most popular one at least), is most likely this:
http://html5doctor.com/html-5-reset-stylesheet/
Hope that helps your issue, but if you don't want to use a reset style sheet simply:
ul, li{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
You can also add a margin and padding 0:
ul li {
list-style: none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
If you want to center the text, try
li{
padding-left: 0px;
padding-right:0px;
margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px;
text-align:center;
}
The following snippet is causing me a QA headache.
<div id="links-container">
<ul>
<li class="resource-link li-sep"><em>Enjoy family-friendly</em>ACTIVITIES AND ATTRACTIONS <span>»</span></li>
<li>...etc...</li>
</ul>
</div>
I tried this in CSS, but nothing is working;
#links-container ul li a { color:#C28234; }
#links-container ul li a span { font-size:140%; line-height:1em; }
#links-container ul li a em { display:block; font-family:Georgia; font-weight:normal; margin-bottom:-6px; }
#links-container ul li a:focus em, #links-container ul li a:active em { outline:none; }
#links-container ul li a:hover { color:#75450A; }
What's happening is that in Firefox, when you tab through the links, it's creating outlines around both sets of text which have close proximity to each other and are causing overlapping outlines.
Our project mgrs wish to keep the outlines to promote accessibility.
If you view it in Chrome, it will wrap the entire contents of the anchor in an outline. And we consider this to be perfect. My question is, can something be done that can replicate this in Firefox. Or at the very least, clean it up so that the outline doesn't look like dung when Firefox individually outlines each text item in the same link.
Anyone else ever have to deal with this? If so, how'd you get past it?
Thanks
Well. It's a partial solution, but can work in your case. If you you have problem with menu items only you can apply "display: inline-block;" to links in here, to make it have a common outline.
Example: jsfiddle.net/zDbsQ/2/
EDIT: Fixed link to example, original was wrong.
You can just use:
#links-container ul li a *{ outline: none; }
This will select all elements within an a and disable the outline..
which is better for use
.menu{
float:left;
width:600px;
height:25px;
background:url(bg.png) repeat-x;
}
.menu ul{
float:left;
}
.menu ul li{
float:left;
width:150px;
height:25px;
background:#F00;
}
or
.menu{
float:left;
width:600px;
height:25px;
background:url(bg.png) repeat-x;
}
.menu ul{
float:left;
}
.menu li{
float:left;
width:150px;
height:25px;
background:#F00;
}
which tag is right menu ul li or menu li?
When you say which tag is right menu ul li or menu li?, are you talking about a div with class="menu" or are you talking about the deprecated menu tag (<menu>)?
If you are just talking about your css code, those are not tags, they are selectors. And I'd go with the most specific selector available in order to avoid accidental assignments
.menu > ul > li{
// this matches only list items directly inside a ul directly inside a .menu
}
even better would be this:
#menu > ul > li{
// now you are referencing the menu by id, so you know this is a unique assignment
}
or, if you have multiple menus:
#menubar > .menu > ul > li{
}
because otherwise you are in for surprises, you might actually have a structure like this:
(this is ugly, I know, but just to prove a point)
<div class="menu">
<ul>
<li>Menu Item 1</li>
<li>Menu Item 2</li>
<li>Menu Item 3
<ul>
<li id="abc">Menu Item abc</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Menu Item 4
<div><div><div><ol><li><div><ul>
<li id="xyz">Menu Item xyz</li>
</ul></div></li></ol></div></div></div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
(you probably don't want to match items abc or xyz).
It makes no difference until you have to interact with other, similar selectors in the same stylesheet — and then it depends on what those selectors are.
It depends. If you've got an ol and a ul within .menu you'll want to use the more specific .menu ul li. Otherwise, .menu li is fine. You might like to read up on CSS specifity.
Unless you're going to also have ordered lists (<ol>) inside .menu containers, the result is exactly the same. Some will probably say one is faster than the other, but that is irrelevant (and hard to prove as it may differ in every browser)
Your selectors should match your intent - if you mean for any list item, regardless of whether it's inside a UL or OL to be styled the same, then example B. If it's only UL LI's you want to style, then A.
This is a fairly simple example, but this is a useful rule of thumb. Ask yourself "If someone came and stuck an ordered list inside .menu, how would I want it to look?
It's a great way to keep your CSS to just the right level of specificity, while maintaining flexibility in the HTML structure it can apply to.
Mozilla Devcenter recommend to use .menu li. You can red more about Writing Efficient CSS and optimizing css code. Personally, I use <ul id='menu'> and then #menu { display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0 }.