- From: Ian Graham <igraham@smaug.java.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 10:19:45 -0400 (EDT)
- To: fahrner@pobox.com (Todd Fahrner)
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Question -- should the markers float out in front? If they happened to be
larger glyphs, or images, they would need to be positioned rather
delicately..... :before and :after would seem to give this flexibility.
Ian
Todd Fahrner wrote:
> At 19:24 -0700 6.4.97, David Perrell wrote:
> > Hakon Lie wrote:
> > > ... With the keyword value 'outside', the marker will be put
> > > outside the box and the box will be formatted and positioned as any
> > > other box.
> >
> > BODY { margin-left: 0 }
> > UL { margin-left: 0 }
> > UL LI { margin-left: 0 }
> > ...
> >
> > <BODY>
> > <UL>
> > <LI>Those bullets are out there...<LI>
......
> > </UL>
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Those bullets are out there...
> >
> > But who knows where?
> >
> > Somehow this doesn't seem right to me.
>
> Yes, it's odd. I've suggested that the markers should take as much
> space as they need, intruding either partially into the list item
> content block, or completely a la "inside" style.
>
> ...
>
>
> XVII. This is item
> number seventeen.
>
> XVIII. This is item
> number eighteen.
>
> ...
>
>
> * Those bullets are
> out there...
>
> * But who knows where?
>
> * Somehow this doesn't
> seem right to me.
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