Thanks, that did the trick. I use firefox.

On Jul 1, 4:37 pm, "Jamie C." <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> If I am understanding you correctly, you just need to specify the
> "list-style-position".
>
> ul {list-stye-position: outside}
>
> http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_list-style-position.asp
>
> Good Luck,
> Jamie
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply.  That is not exactly what I meant. It is more
> > like this:
>
> > 1.  This is the first part of item 1
> >     The first word of this line is under the first word of the
> > previous line
> > 2.   And so on
> >      And so on.
>
> > NOT like this:
>
> > 1.  Here are items
> > that is completely left justified
>
> > Does that make sense?
>
> > On Jun 29, 9:58 pm, Brandtley McMinn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hey Chris,
>
> > > I think I understand what you mean. If you're looking for something that
> > > looks like this:
>
> > > 1. Item name bit/
> > >      1st sub item
> > >      2nd sub item/
> > > 2. Other item bit
> > > ...
> > > ...
>
> > > Thats a matter of clever nesting of your lists. So essentially your
> > > markup would have:
>
> > > <ol>
> > > <li>Title
> > > <ul class="subitems">
> > > <li>Sub item of Title</li>
> > > <li>Other sub item</li>
> > > </ul>
> > > </li>
> > > <li>Second Title</li>
> > > </ol>
>
> > > Then all you would need to do from there is target the <ul> with a class
> > > attribute and style the margin however you need it.
>
> > > Hope this helps,
>
> > > -- Brandtley McMinn - Creative Director
>
> > > >  Gigglebox Studios XD
> > > >  [email protected]
> > > >  512.406.1666
>
> > > On 6/29/2010 9:32 AM, Chris wrote:
>
> > > > This is my first post to this group. Sorry if the question is lame and
> > > > obvious.
>
> > > > I would like to create an ordered list where the text is not aligned
> > > > under the item number but rather under the first letter of the
> > > > sentence. I tried changing the margin attribute, but that didn't work.
>
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Chris
>
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