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Forum: Instructions for Reading Messages
Re: New response list format (Mike Overton)
Date: 1995, Jun 12
From: Daniel M LaLiberte <liberte>

Only recently did I learn about the problem of indenting DL lists. For the browsers I was using, it indented fine. But there is apparently some ambiguity about the interpretation of nested DL lists.
A work around (for some browsers at least) is that I should include a <DD> before the following DL list that is to be indented. E.g.

1

1.1

1.2

2

2.1

2.2

Let me know if that doesn't indent properly. Here is how it is currently done:

1

1.1
1.2

2

2.1
2.2

I'd rather keep using the DL lists since they don't include the bullets which are superfluous. OL lists are not right either since the numbers are not consecutive after deletions. I understand that future HTML will allow me to specify the number of each item - that will work just fine.
DL lists also start at the left whereas the first UL item is indented. That is probably the source of the ambiguity for nested DL lists.
I'd also like to not indent quite so deeply, but that is a browser style issue.

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