This bug was reported in January 2000: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25291
After twelve years and only 13 comments, I'd guess that no one cares enough to fix it :( -- Vince Aggrippino Ghodmode Development http://www.ghodmode.com On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Ghodmode <ghodm...@ghodmode.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Erica Cavin <ecav...@verizon.net> wrote: >> On this page: http://www.risingstarquilters.org/join_update.html >> >> the small arrow that should appear next to "Back to questions" displays >> far to the left in Chrome and Safari. It displays properly in Firefox >> and IE. Any thoughts as to why? > > It looks like IE9 displays the same as Chrome and Safari, but IE8 displays the > same as Firefox > > For starters, it's not a background-image. It's a list-style-image, so the > background-position property doesn't have any affect. > > The list-item is as wide as the block and the text is aligned to the right. > It > looks like Firefox puts the bullet to the left of the text and the others put > it > to the left of the block. > > I hate to say it, but I think Firefox's presentation is wrong in this case. > > The spec says "The marker box is outside the principal block box.". Since the > left of the list item's principal block box is all the way over on the left, > that's where the bullet should be. > > For the desired effect, you should set list-style-position:inside. This will > have no effect in Firefox, but the others will render the bullet "as the first > inline box in the principal block box" as defined in the spec. > > Ref: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#propdef-list-style-position > > -- > Vince Aggrippino > Ghodmode Development > http://www.ghodmode.com > > >> CSS here: http://www.risingstarquilters.org/styles2.css >> >> Thanks! >> >> Erica >> -- >> Attic Windows Web Design >> http://atticwindowswebdesign.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
