this might sound dumb, but try using 'display:block;'?
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Alexandre Plennevaux
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yup I second Mike's advise. Make sure first that CSS allows it in a
> static demo file, then when you get it to work, you'll know what to
> script exactly.
>
> Just a remark $('ul ul li') is not the same as $('ul li'). In the
> first case it would only concern li which are inside an ul, inside
> another ul (so, excluding first-level ul). Second case concerns all LI
> elements.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Michael Geary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Suggestion: Forget jQuery for a while. Instead, hand-edit an HTML file and
>> see if you can get the styling the way you want.
>>
>> That way you don't have to troubleshoot both sides at once. All you have to
>> worry about is the HTML and CSS.
>>
>> If you can get that to work, then you can duplicate the effect with jQuery.
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>>> From: MartyB
>>>
>>> The more I am studying this, the more I am convinced that
>>> what I am trying to do is impossible.
>>> It is impossible to disassociate a child li background-color
>>> from the parent's, and still let jQuery apply the :even
>>> filter to all li's, sequencially for both parent and child.
>>
>>
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