Keith,
Do you have to use <li>? It makes more sense to use <dl>, something like
this:
<style>
dl { width: 440px; }
dt { float: left; width: 100px; text-align: right; clear: both; }
dd { float: right; width: 300px }
</style>
<dl>
<dt>term 1 -</dt>
<dd>Term 1 is the very first term in the list. </dd>
<dt>term 2 -</dt>
<dd>Term 2 is the second term in this definition list.</dd>
<dt>term 3 -</dt>
<dd>Term 3 is the third term in this fairly long definition
list. </dd>
</dl>
-Nigel
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Sader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:08 AM
To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
Subject: [css-d] aligning li items
Greetings.
We've got a requirement to align some li items.
The list items are basically expaining acronyms.
ABC - Alpha Beta Charlie
DFQG - Delta Fox Quarrel Gamma
However the alignment requirement is such that the acronym explanations
are all lined up at the dashes.
I've thought of structuring the html like this:
<li><span>ABC</span>- Alpha...</li>
<li><span>DFQG</span>- DFQG...</li>
then adding the following style
li span {
width: 200px;
}
but this doesn't give me a 'default' box area to keep the acronyms in.
Any suggestions? I've looked at list-o-matic and I don't see anything
that does this.
thanks,
--
Keith Sader
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.saderfamily.org/roller/page/ksader
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