53958 - Stylesheet and unordered list break left margin and placement of 'blob'

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P3)

Description

[Martin Tod]

Check out http://online.libdems.org.

In the left hand box, near the top, the unordered list "Overall" "E-mail &
e-mail lists" "Web sites" "Virtual Meetings" "Offline" is totally left-aligned
with the 'blobs' pushed to the left of the text flow.

Relevant section(s) of the stylesheet http://online.libdems.org/default.css read
.Nav { width : 26%; float : left; font-size : 10px; background-color: white;
border : thin solid #ff9900; padding: 8px; }

.NavList { background-color: white; color: black; padding: 0px; margin-top: 2px;
margin-bottom: 4px; }

Comment 1

[Ari Pollak]

OK, definitely a bug.. Just to clarify, "Overall" until "Offline" on the
lefthand side should be indented, not flush with the left margin. At least Moz
renders it better than NS 4.7x :)

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Wow. How unbelievably refreshing to see such a well written page. I am very
impressed by whoever wrote it. Nice one.

The bug is actually not a bug, since the stylesheet explicitly sets the margin
on the list to zero. If it looks 'ok' in IE (I haven't checked) then that is 
because IE has a bug whereby you cannot override its list margins.

Marking INVALID.

Comment 3

[Christine Hoffman]

Actually, it was the padding that was set to 0px which resulted in no indented 
list items. 

Verifying bug invalid.

Comment 4

[Martin Tod]

It's only invalid if you count the margin as starting from the text and not the 
'blob'... is this what is really intended?  It's certainly not the normal layout 
convention.

Martin Tod, [e-mail]

Comment 5

[Pierre Saslawsky]

There is no normal layout convention. The spec says: "CSS1 did not specify the 
precise location of the marker box and for reasons of compatibility, CSS2 remains 
equally ambiguous. For more precise control of marker boxes, please use markers."
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/generate.html#propdef-list-style-position>

Closed as Invalid again.

Comment 6

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

reverifying...