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January 14, 2009
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List alignment issues in Firefox

  • January 14, 2009
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After composing a webhelp project with primary and secondary (supporting) steps portrayed, Firefox doesn't play nice with the indentations that keep the information grouped visually.

In IE, it looks like this.

1. Do this
(.25 inch indent) a. Do this
(.25 inch indent) b. then do this
(.25 inch indent) c. save
2. Then do this, etc.

In Firefox:

1. do this
a. do this
b. then do this
c. save
2. Then do this...

I had read the browser issues portion of the grainge.org troubleshooting site for working with ordered and unordered lists. Am I able to attain this level of indentation by editing the _ns.css stylesheet, or do I just accept this as a limitation for Firefox?
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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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January 14, 2009
Have you looked at your post? I am not seeing any difference.

The gist of the article is that you manually adjust the ns.css to get the result you want.

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Anonymous
January 14, 2009
So if I have a primary step "step1" indented 0.20 inches,
and secondary step "step2" indented 0.45 inches,

within the _ns.css file, I should be editing both of these entries rather than the OL entry
to:

P.step1 {
font-size:10pt;
list-style:decimal;
margin-left:-0.05in; }
LI.P-step1 {
font-size:10pt;
list-style:decimal; }
HTML>BODY step1 {
margin-left:-0.5in; }

and

P.step2 {
list-style:lower-alpha;
font-size:10pt;
font-style:normal;
html>body:LI "{" "margin-left:0.05in";
margin-left:1pt; }
LI.P-step2 {
list-style:lower-alpha;
font-size:10pt;
font-style:normal;
html>body:LI "{" "margin-left:0.05in"; }
HTML>BODY step2 {
margin-left:0.05in; }

I'm trying to play with it, but would this be more likely to work?
Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 14, 2009
It is the OL and UL tags you need to be editing. The method is in the article, the measurements will be a bit of trial and error.

Post back if you are stuck after trying a bit more. It's late here but either someone else will help or I will look tomorrow.

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