[Doxygen-develop] Style bug: In need of a nest list class in CSS

[Jeff F. <jc...@tp...>]

Dimitri,

I have come across a style bug with unumbered lists. It's only a bug if 
you try to set a custom style on <ul>. I use doxygen  to document a  
large C++ project - it's great, thank you! I want to give the unnumbered 
lists that are used to list the class members at the top of the 
generated HTML pages a custom background color, so they stand out more 
as a group. I added an entry for <ul> to my custom CSS file. I use a 
light page background color (darker than white) and have the list 
background color a few shades lighter. On its own it doesn't look good 
but when you give the list a much darker one pixel border I looks great. 
The subtle difference in shades becomes more obvious and the lists 
appears to stand out from the page.

Unfortunately this is where the style bug occurs. The custom style also 
gets applied to the nested <ul> that are used to display the class 
hierarchy entries in the 'hierarchy.html' file. Not only does the top 
level <ul> have a border but all the nested <ul> do as well - and it 
looks ugly. So I have to manually edit the file to remove the borders, 
and its a long file - about 420 classes across two libraries. Everywhere 
else top level lists look OK.

Would it be possible to implement a nested <ul> class in the CSS that 
could be used to reverse any style changes applied to a top level <ul>. 
Then all nested <ul> could be generated with this nested <ul> class 
instead of a standard <ul>. I don't know if you ever intended such a 
style to be applied to lists but it looks good, and I'm sure it would 
add new design possibilites to Doxygen documentation.

Regards,
Jeff Franks.