[css-d] line breaks and/or outdenting?

2011-01-12 Thread Rory Bernstein
Hello, I posted here before about a solution for outdenting the lines of a paragraph (first line of text hangs our further to left than the rest of the lines) and got a great solution. But, it turns out that given how my content is coming in from the CMS, I cannot mark up the text in the way

Re: [css-d] line breaks and/or outdenting?

2011-01-12 Thread Chetan Crasta
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Rory Bernstein r...@rorybernstein.com wrote: Hello, I posted here before about a solution for outdenting the lines of a paragraph (first line of text hangs our further to left than the rest of the lines) and got a great solution. But, it turns out that given

Re: [css-d] line breaks and/or outdenting?

2011-01-12 Thread Rory Bernstein
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Rory Bernstein r...@rorybernstein.com wrote: Hello, I posted here before about a solution for outdenting the lines of a paragraph (first line of text hangs our further to left than the rest of the lines) and got a great solution. But, it turns out that

Re: [css-d] line breaks and/or outdenting?

2011-01-12 Thread Chetan Crasta
Sorry, only a limited number of properties can be applied to the pseudo element :first-line. These do not include positioning properties. Looks like your only option is to put the text of the first line within a span and then style it. ~Chetan

Re: [css-d] line breaks and/or outdenting?

2011-01-12 Thread Rory Bernstein
On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Chetan Crasta wrote: Sorry, only a limited number of properties can be applied to the pseudo element :first-line. These do not include positioning properties. Looks like your only option is to put the text of the first line within a span and then style it.

Re: [css-d] line breaks and/or outdenting?

2011-01-12 Thread David Hucklesby
On 1/12/11 11:34 AM, Rory Bernstein wrote: Hello, I posted here before about a solution for outdenting the lines of a paragraph (first line of text hangs our further to left than the rest of the lines) and got a great solution. But, it turns out that given how my content is coming in from the

Re: [css-d] line breaks and/or outdenting?

2011-01-12 Thread Rory Bernstein
But you don't have 2 items!!! You have one item with some added line breaks. That's why Chetan's solution only indents the first line. (It does work on the first line this end. In which browser are you failing to see the indent?) To get the effect you seek, you absolutely need two items/