I'm baffled

[Steve K]

While I'm no css guru by any stretch, I thought I knew more than this,
guess not.

I'm trying to come up with a style for a few lines of text that are
secondary to the text above them, so I want them to be indented about
9px.

..index_link_indent a {
font-size: 11px;
text-decoration: none;
margin-left: 9px;
}
Now these lines of text are pretty long, so they wrap down to two,
sometimes three, lines.

My problem is this, the lines that wrap do not indent. Only the first
line indents. I need the whole thing to indent.

Here is the site under construction:

http://clgp.aem.cornell.edu/

Style sheet

http://clgp.aem.cornell.edu/clgp_styles.css

The text I'm talking about is in the first column titled "Conferences,
Events, Calendars" The indented text is under "Calendar of Partners."

On large monitors, the text may not be wrapped, but if you shorten the
width, you'll see what I mean.

????
Thanks
Steve

[Els]

Steve K wrote:

While I'm no css guru by any stretch, I thought I knew more than this,
guess not.

I'm trying to come up with a style for a few lines of text that are
secondary to the text above them, so I want them to be indented about
9px.

.index_link_indent a {
font-size: 11px;
text-decoration: none;
margin-left: 9px;
}
Now these lines of text are pretty long, so they wrap down to two,
sometimes three, lines.

My problem is this, the lines that wrap do not indent. Only the first
line indents. I need the whole thing to indent.

Here is the site under construction:

http://clgp.aem.cornell.edu/

Style sheet

http://clgp.aem.cornell.edu/clgp_styles.css

The text I'm talking about is in the first column titled "Conferences,
Events, Calendars" The indented text is under "Calendar of Partners."

On large monitors, the text may not be wrapped, but if you shorten the
width, you'll see what I mean.

????

The easy answer might be 'use padding on the <p> element instead of
margin on the <a> element'.

But why don't you just use a list? A list is semantically the best way
to do this, and it gives you the indenting naturally without you doing
anything. (although you might wanna set it to get the same amount of
indenting in different browsers)

--
Els http://locusmeus.com/
Sonhos vem. Sonhos vão. O resto é imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -

[Darin McGrew]

Steve K <sm***@cornell.edu> wrote:

I'm trying to come up with a style for a few lines of text that are
secondary to the text above them, so I want them to be indented about
9px.

.index_link_indent a {
font-size: 11px;
It isn't a good idea to specify font sizes in px (or pt) units. See
http://css.nu/faq/ciwas-aFAQ.html#QA02
text-decoration: none;
margin-left: 9px;
}
Now these lines of text are pretty long, so they wrap down to two,
sometimes three, lines.

My problem is this, the lines that wrap do not indent. Only the first
line indents. I need the whole thing to indent.

Here is the site under construction:

http://clgp.aem.cornell.edu/

Style sheet

http://clgp.aem.cornell.edu/clgp_styles.css

You've specified margin-left for the A element, and that's what you've got.

From your description, it sounds like you want padding-left on the P
element that contains the A element.

But from looking at the document, it seems that it would be more
appropriate to mark up the links as a list.
--
Darin McGrew, mc****@stanfordalumni.org, http://www.rahul.net/mcgrew/
Web Design Group, da***@htmlhelp.com, http://www.HTMLHelp.com/

"FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION. It comes bundled with the software."

[C A Upsdell]

Steve K wrote:

While I'm no css guru by any stretch, I thought I knew more than this,
guess not.

I'm trying to come up with a style for a few lines of text that are
secondary to the text above them, so I want them to be indented about
9px.

.index_link_indent a {
font-size: 11px;
text-decoration: none;
margin-left: 9px;
}

sigh. i know that this is OT, but: I hope you realize that specifying
fonts and margin sizes in absolute units, like pixels, can create
accessibility problems.

[Alan J. Flavell]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, C A Upsdell wrote:

sigh. i know that this is OT,
By no means! It may not be what the O.P wants to hear, but it's
absolutely key and on-topic in any discussion about authoring for the
WWW, IMNSHO.
but: I hope you realize that specifying fonts and margin sizes in
absolute units, like pixels, can create accessibility problems.

Fortunately, any decent browser has a defence mechanism against such
problems. But that then means that the author is relying on the
reader overriding what the author asked for. We hope (though such
hopes tend to be short-lived in the case of pixel-fixated authors)
that the design won't fall into a scrappy heap when the author's font
size specification is overridden.

Yes, you're right, it would be much nicer if the author would ask for
what the reader wants, rather than relying on the reader having to
contradict what the author specified. The group's contributor S.Poley
has some excellent articles on font sizing and related topics, by the
way, I regularly commend them to other web authors around here:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/
Oh yes, and to the Original Poster (repeating the standard advice of
comp.lang.perl.misc): "Please put the subject of your posting in the
Subject of your posting".