[ale] CSS hell

[Jim Popovitch]

On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 07:48, Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
> AUGH. No! That is the WRONG ANSWER.

Not necessarily.  Both examples work, your's is just twice the size in
bytes.  All those extra messy html tags.  Yuck, yuck... :) 

-Jim P.

> 
> The right answer is to find out where the problem originates. In this
> case, it is browser rendering behavior regarding lists. For my solution,
> have a look at this implementation of your page, Christopher:
> 
> http://www.accipiter.org/~ccurzio/windex.html
> 
> My fix displays consistently across Internet Explorer, Mozilla/Firefox,
> Opera, and Konqueror. Using tables for layout is a nasty hack and is never
> a real solution. 
> 
> For an explanation of the list issue (and how I fixed it) have a look at
> this DevEdge article:
> 
> http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/list-indent/