indentations and line spacing within lists - I'm having problems

[puzzled]

I am trying to use css to control the indentation within items in a
list. I would like something that looks like this:
Text of a paragraph goes here, leading to the following list:

* list item 1
* list item 2
* and so on

++++++++

Now the features of the above are:

1. The paragraph has a left margin of 4%. That is, it's left edge is
4% from the edge of the browser window.

2. Skip a line prior to the list beginning.

3. The * represents a bullet or a number - just the symbol
representing the start of a new list item

4. I want the list indented relative to the paragraph.

5. I want single spacing between list items.

Nothing I've tried seems to accomplish what I want. I thought that
using css to set up margin-left: +2% for ul, ol, and li would cause
the margin to be 2% farther left than the existing paragraph margin.
No luck. I thought that line-height: 1 would cause single spacing; it
doesn't. Actually, line-height: .5em seems to work in Netscape and
IE, but I'm not comfortable with that.

So what do I say for ol, ul, li in my style section to accomplish
this?

[Stan Brown]

In article <on************ *************** *****@4ax.com> in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets, puzzled wrote:

[two issues in lists: indentation and vertical spacing]

For indentation, you need to set more than one property. Eric Meyer
explains it excellently at
<http://devedge.netscap e.com/viewsource/2002/list-indent/>.

Nothing I've tried seems to accomplish what I want.

I don't understand the difficulty with spacing. Set
ul, ol { margin-top: 1em; padding-top: 0 }
li { margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0 }
and that ought to do the trick.

Perhaps if you posted the URL of your best (even though imperfect)
effort...

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
2.1 changes: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/changes.html
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

[puzzled]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:06:17 -0500, Stan Brown
<th************ @fastmail.fm> wrote:

In article <on************ *************** *****@4ax.com> in
comp.infosyste ms.www.authoring.stylesheets, puzzled wrote:

[two issues in lists: indentation and vertical spacing]

For indentation, you need to set more than one property. Eric Meyer
explains it excellently at
<http://devedge.netscap e.com/viewsource/2002/list-indent/>.

My problems were stemming from my accidentally applying a class to
ul/li that I hadn't intended to apply. The Eric Meyer article was
great. Using its simple recommendation, I got my margins the way I
wanted.

For vertical spacing, once I removed the unintended class from ul/li,
line-height: 1em worked as it should have.

Thanks.