Re: Tools -- RoboHelp/Webhelp style alignment issues in Firefox

[Craig Haiss <craighaiss -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

...also note that FireFox puts any text-indent between the number and first letter of your sentence. So you might need to avoid using text-indent, and instead zero out the margin and use padding to apply your indentation:

  ol.sub {margin-left: 0px; padding-left: [[size of indentation]];}

Hope that helps.

--- On Wed, 1/21/09, Craig Haiss <craighaiss -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

> From: Craig Haiss <craighaiss -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> Subject: Re: Tools -- RoboHelp/Webhelp style alignment issues in Firefox
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 4:47 PM
> IE and FireFox differ a bit in the way they implement
> margins and padding. This can cause the indentation issues
> you describe.
> 
> You may need to set the margin and padding for list items
> to zero in your CSS, and then use text-indent to apply the
> indentation.
> 
> That's just a guess, since I can't see your CSS.
> But zeroing out margins and padding is a great place to
> start.
> 
> Craig Haiss
> craighaiss -at- yahoo -dot- com
> Tech writing tips: http://www.helpscribe.com
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 1/21/09, Jeffrey Barnes
> <jbarnes -at- sendmail -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.


      
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