What do you think about controlling a <ul> list levels as seen by the  
enduser in browser with css padding ?
I just contemplated this while wrangling with some server side code  
that builds a list dynamically based on how many records it  sees and  
whether they are parent or children....

.firstlevel {padding-left: 1em;}

.secondlevel {padding-left: 2em;}


Like this:

<ul>
        <li class="firstlevel">Parent One</li>
        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
        <li class="firstlevel">Parent Two</li>
        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
</ul>


Instead of this:

<ul>
        <li class="firstlevel">Parent One</li>
                <ul>
                        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
                        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
                        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
                        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
                        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
                        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
                        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
                </ul>
        
        <li class="firstlevel">Lokta Paper</li>
                <ul>
                        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
                        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
                        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
                        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
                        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
                        <li class="secondlevel"></li>
                </ul>
</ul>
Thanks,
Barrett
AOL/AIM handmadepaperus

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