How to overwrite UAs default stylesheet?

[Robert Siemer]

Hello!

As CSS2 Sec. 6.4 specifies, UA must apply a default stylesheet. How
should I override it _accordingly_?

Assume nested ULs:

-first
+inner
+still inner
-second
-outer

I want to disable the indentation:

-first
+inner
+still inner
-second
-outer

As the recommended UA default says "margin-left: 40px" I could perfectly
adjust my style to "margin-left: -40px" but how to do that in a browser
independant way??

If I don't know the UA default, I need a possibility to get margin-left
to 0, but I found no way (Mozilla 1.0.0)...
Any ideas?

Robert

[Chris Morris]

Robert Siemer <Ro***********@spz.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:

As CSS2 Sec. 6.4 specifies, UA must apply a default stylesheet. How
should I override it _accordingly_?

As the recommended UA default says "margin-left: 40px" I could
perfectly adjust my style to "margin-left: -40px" but how to do that
in a browser independant way??

They overwrite, not add.

ul,li {
margin-left: 0;
padding-left: 0;
}

You need both ul and li, and both margin and padding, because
different browsers make the indent in different ways by default.

--
Chris

[Jacqui or (maybe) Pete]

In article <87************@dinopsis.dur.ac.uk>, c.********@durham.ac.uk
says...

Robert Siemer <Ro***********@spz.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:

As CSS2 Sec. 6.4 specifies, UA must apply a default stylesheet. How
should I override it _accordingly_?

....
ul,li {
margin-left: 0;
padding-left: 0;
}
....

....and if the OP only wants to lose the indentation of the sublist then
eg:

li ul, /* any <ul> inside a <li> */
li li /* any <li> inside a <li> */
{
margin-left: 0;
padding-left: 0;
}

[Lauri Raittila]

In article <87************@dinopsis.dur.ac.uk>, Chris Morris wrote:

Robert Siemer <Ro***********@spz.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:

As CSS2 Sec. 6.4 specifies, UA must apply a default stylesheet. How
should I override it _accordingly_?

They overwrite, not add.

ul,li {
margin-left: 0;
padding-left: 0;
}

You need both ul and li, and both margin and padding, because
different browsers make the indent in different ways by default.

But be aware, this makes the bullets go outside document in most
implementations.
--
Lauri Raittila <http://www.iki.fi/lr> <http://www.iki.fi/zwak/fonts>
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