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Joe

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Jul 30, 2001, 3:25:44 PM7/30/01

I have the following CSS script:
.indent
{
MARGIN-TOP: 0px;
MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px;
MARGIN-LEFT: 15px;
}

I would like to know if there is a way to have the MARGIN-LEFT depend on the
parent. What I would like is to be able to have:
Some non-indented Text
<P CLASS="indent">Indented text
<P CLASS="indent">Indented twice
</P></P>
Or is there not a way to do that? Also, does netscape have problems with
nested <P> tags?
Thanks,

Joe Mumbauer.

Steve Fulton

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Jul 30, 2001, 5:33:18 PM7/30/01

Every browser should have a problem with "nested" <P> tags! From the HTML 4
spec: "The P element represents a paragraph. It cannot contain block-level
elements (including P itself)."

But if you had an element that was class="indent" that could contain
block-level elements that were themselves class="indent", then your style
would indent the children twice.

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reflects it. -Edith Wharton

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Joe

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Jul 31, 2001, 9:02:15 AM7/31/01

Thanks, I tried using the DIV tag and it works great!

Joe Mumbauer.

Nathan Sokalski

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Aug 1, 2001, 2:31:23 AM8/1/01

First, the <P> tag does not usually have a closing tag (it is optional).
Second, because the <P> tag is an inline object (in this case, text), it
cannot be nested. But if it was nestable, you would use a % instead of a
measurement (such as px). But it sounds like you want to use a list, which
can be nested. If you want what I think you want, try something like this:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<STYLE>
UL{list-style-type:none; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<UL STYLE="Margin:0px;">
<LI>Paragraph #1 Paragraph #1 Paragraph #1 Paragraph #1 Paragraph #1
Paragraph #1 Paragraph #1 Paragraph #1 Paragraph #1 Paragraph #1 Paragraph
#1
<UL>
<LI>Paragraph #2 Paragraph #2 Paragraph #2 Paragraph #2 Paragraph #2
Paragraph #2 Paragraph #2 Paragraph #2 Paragraph #2 Paragraph #2 Paragraph
#2
<UL>
<LI>Paragraph #3 Paragraph #3 Paragraph #3 Paragraph #3 Paragraph #3
Paragraph #3 Paragraph #3 Paragraph #3 Paragraph #3 Paragraph #3 Paragraph
#3
</UL>
</UL>
</UL>
</BODY>
</HTML>

This will give you a set of paragraphs where the first one is not indented,
and each following one is indented from the previous one.
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