#3682 Slashdot's new CSS rules are too generic

Main related file: http://images.slashdot.org/comments.css

Several of the new CSS rules are too generic, assuming
for example that all unordered lists (UL tags) in the
comments area are part of the comment hierarchy
(div#contents ul li ul), while comments are also
allowed to use them.

Ideally more specific nesting rules (using ">"
selectors) would solve the problem, but IE lacks
support to them.
My suggestion is to change Slashcode's markup to
include classes on the tree's elements to aid the styling.
A similar problem happens to links, but a kind of a
hack was used to fix it (see comments.css line 35,
"#commentlisting div.commentTop a,", to line 40).

[shane]

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I think this is more of a feature-request, but I'll second it just the same.

[Matt Sicker]

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Of course, you could just use the IE7 JS library as well
for IE. That adds support for selectors.

[Anonymous]

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It is a bug in the sense of not rendering lists in user
comments correctly.

My original intent was to include a link to an example, but
unfortunately (or fortunately, as it makes this problem much
less significant) such lists are quite rare and I couldn't
find the ones I saw before.

You can still test it by writing a list in the reply box and
previewing it (minimal testcase: "<ul><li>a<li>b</ul>").

By the way, while trying the preview, I found another
aesthetical minor issue: the background of the preview area
is gray, making the preview slightly visually different from
the result, and producing a small white corner due to the
corner-rounding background picture. But I guess that's even
less important, since nobody previews posts. If you do, you
must be new here :)

[Raphaël Quinet]

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You may also want to look at bug #1502349. I had not seen
this one when I submitted my bug report. Both reports are
about similar CSS problems, except that I noted that OL
lists are also affected. I also suggest a solution and
link to some comments demonstrating the problems affecting
these lists.