I used ems because most of the horizontal positioning in the chapter css
is specified in ems units (a generally preferred unit anyway).
Negative 2ems aligns it with the <dd> tag of the containing <dl>, which
seems a reasonable thing to do.
On 11/5/2014 1:43 PM, Todd Lyons wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Phillip Carroll
> <postmaster@???> wrote:
>> It would be appreciated if whomever is responsible for the formatting of the
>> online doc would fix the CSS used for Chapter 58. In any modern browser, the
>> formatting is horrible.
>>
>> The specific page: http://tinyurl.com/o4aglkr
>>
>> Specifically, the problem appears to affect the formatting of <dl> tags
>> subordinate to <dd>. I have no doubt I could hunt down the problem and fix
>> it, once I deduced the intended result. However, I just don't have the time.
>>
>> ...Oh hell, actually, in two minutes, I see in chapter.css:
>>
>>> dl dd dl {
>>> margin-left: -180px;
>>> }
>>
>>
>> Text positioned at negative 180 pixels to the left is somewhat difficult to
>> read in my browser. I assume something else is actually intended?
>
> My first guess was that the - was extra, but removing it did something
> horrible to the output. My second guess was that the 0 was extra, and
> -18 was intended. In my testing "-18px" gives what appears to be
> reasonable alignment. Can anybody else refute that? It renders fine
> in Firefox once you change that to -18px.
>
> ...Todd
>
