Re: [WWdevel] Re: [WWcvs] webwork2: changes to links subroutine: * sublists are now within list

[Michael G. <ga...@ma...>]

Hi Sam,

As it turned out I hadn't updated the ur.css style sheets.  Once I  
had done
that (and refreshed pages a couple of times to clear the Safari  
caches) things
looked much better.

thanks for the note on how to change the indentation for those that  
want to.

thanks.

Take care,

Mike

On Nov 21, 2005, at 9:30 PM, Sam Hathaway wrote:

> On Nov 21, 2005, at 20:23, Michael Gage wrote:
>
>> Hi Sam,
>>
>> I have one complaint about how this looks -- in general I like how  
>> it behaves.
>> Can we lower the indent size for the lists on the left hand side?   
>> It looks like
>> there are automatically 12 spaces
>> before the Classlist Editor, homework sets edit and so forth.   
>> This seems like
>> a lot of screen real estate.  (I know most screens are large these  
>> days, so this is not
>> as crucial as it was 3 or 4 years ago, but stingy habits die  
>> hard. :-)  )
>>
>> I dimly remember constructing this by hand with
>>   to minimize the width of the left margin.  Can we adjust  
>> the CSS specificiation
>> in this region to make the indent size for each of the lists 2  
>> spaces instead of 4 or more?
>
> The size is controlled by this line in the ur.template stylesheet  
> (htdocs/css/ur.css):
>
> div.Links ul { list-style: none; margin-left: 0; padding-left: 0; }
> div.Links ul ul { list-style: none; margin-left: 0.5em; padding- 
> left: 0; }
>
> The indentation of sublists is 0.5em, which is (apparently) half  
> the width of the letter M in the font being used. It looks like  
> about 2 or 3 spaces to me, have you updated the stylesheet? If not,  
> you might be seeing the default indentation for nested lists.
>
> Here it is in Safari:
>
> <pastedGraphic.tiff>

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