[css-d] [Printing problems with DL/DT/DD for numbered paragraphs] rides again...

2005-06-28 Thread Mirgy-CSS-discuss
Friends, This is a continuation of the page looks fine but printing is screwed up thread... In response to the suggestion from Peter Williams I removed the xml line from the top of the file. I appreciate the suggestion and the education, but it has made no difference in the outcome. The

RE: [css-d] [Printing problems with DL/DT/DD for numbered paragraphs] rides again...

2005-06-28 Thread Peter Williams
From: Pringle, Ron ...I don't see the logic or reason behind the use of a definition list for numbered paragraphs. As you have it now, the dt has little meaning or relation to the dd. SNIP Better yet, designate each number as a header (h2, h3, whatever) and follow it with the

RE: [css-d] [Printing problems with DL/DT/DD for numbered paragraphs] rides again...

2005-06-28 Thread Peter Williams
From: T. R. Valentine A hanging-indent can be achieved by using the text-indent property and assigning it a negative value. What would be tricky in the above would be aligning the beginning of the text following the number with the left edge of the other lines. Back on css topic :-) How

[css-d] Printing problems with DL/DT/DD for numbered paragraphs...

2005-06-26 Thread Mirgy-CSS-discuss
Friends, I maintain a site that has a substantial number of documents which have numbered paragraphs. I am moving the site from a table oriented to a simpler structure using DL/DT/DD, and it appears to display well in the browsers that I have access to (IE 6.0.2 Win XP and FF 1.0.4, same

Re: [css-d] Printing problems with DL/DT/DD for numbered paragraphs...

2005-06-26 Thread Mirgy-CSS-discuss
Try again with the HTML (spaces added to prevent display in web aware email)... At 06:49 PM 6/26/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The HTML (greatly simplified) would be: ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd html

Re: [css-d] Printing problems with DL/DT/DD for numbered paragraphs...

2005-06-26 Thread Kelly Miller
Peter Williams wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; Remove the xml prolog and see if the behaviour is better, as far as I'm aware it is unusable

RE: [css-d] Printing problems with DL/DT/DD for numbered paragraphs...

2005-06-26 Thread Peter Williams
From: Kelly Miller I don't think it's the prolog in this case...I was unaware that you could use a float in a print page... Kelly, I setup a quick text page and my markup was: dl dt1./dt ddThis is the first numbered paragraph, done by using a dl with numbers at the dt and the para

RE: [css-d] Printing problems with DL/DT/DD for numbered paragraphs...

2005-06-26 Thread Peter Williams
I've done a second test, using media=print and changing the typeface and hiding another element on my test page, the float still works and the numbers are still left of the dd text in IE6 and FF1.04, in print preview and when printed. Same markup as before and same css float directive as before,