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by Eric A. Meyer
ISBN 1-56592-622-6
First edition, published May 2000.
(See the catalog page for this book.)
Search the text of Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide.
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UL {list-style-type: disc;}
UL UL {list-style-type: circle;}
UL UL UL {list-style-type: square;}If this is so, and it's likely that it will be, you will have to declare your own styles to overcome the UA's styles. Inheritance won't be enough in such a case.
Of course, it's still possible to use these properties to keepan element from exceeding a certain size, as in this:
max-height: 30em; max-width: 20em;
The question here, though, is what happens if the content of theelement doesn't all fit into the specified element size. Doesit get cut off at the boundaries, or does it spill outside thepositioned element? That's what the next section will explore.
line-height really only applies to inline elementsand other inline content and not to block-level elements. We can seta line-height value for a block-level element, butthe only way this will have any visual impact is by being applied toinline content within that block-level element. Consider thefollowing paragraph, for example:<P STYLE="line-height: 0.25em;"></P>
Without content, the paragraph won't have anything to display,so it will not. The fact that this paragraph has aputting anything where the bullet would ordinarily be, although itdoes not interrupt the counting in ordered lists. Thus, the followingmarkup would have the result shown in Figure 7-80:
OL LI {list-style-type: decimal;}LI.off {list-style-type: none;}<OL><LI>Item the first<LI CLASS="off">Item the second<LI>Item the third