Removing ul indentation with CSS

181
votes

I cannot seem to remove the indent from my unordered list when long lines in my list wrap around. Here is what my list looks like:

  • Windows users can use putty
  • Mac users can use the Terminal.app
  • Linux users can use SSH [email protected] port 22
  • ...........>Or use an SFTP program like Cyberduck just point it at .........................................>ourserver.com, port 22

(the dots show the indents)

I've read a bunch of solutions and tried setting margin and padding to zero, using text-indent, list-style, but nothing works. I think the problem is that there is a heading above the list that I need to be centered and so I'm setting the margins to auto and then it's messing up the list below. But even if I put say two divs inside the parent div it doesn't work.

Here is the HTML/CSS (I included everything in case there is some setting that is causing all of the other solutions to fail)

<div id="info">
    <p><strong>Did you know you can SSH directly to ourserver.com?</strong> </p> 
    <ul>
        <li>Windows users can use putty</li>
        <li>Mac users can use the <a href="http://www.terminfo.org">Terminal.app</a></li>
        <li>Linux users can use SSH [email protected] port 22</li>
        <li>Or use an SFTP program like <a href="http://cyberduck.ch/">Cyberduck</a> just point it at ourserver.com, port 22</li>
    </ul>
</div>

#info {
    color:#FFFFFF;
    width:440px;
    margin-left:auto;
    margin-right:auto;
    border-radius: 10px;
    border-style:solid;
    border-width:2px;
    border-color:#FFF; 
    padding-bottom:20px; padding-left:20px; padding-right:20px;
    background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 100%, from(#333333), to(#cccccc));
    overflow: hidden;
}
#info ul li { 
    float:left;
}
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I put it in a fiddle... this looks right to me jsfiddle.net/qeqtK – tedski
jsfiddle for those who want to see it...or just use tedski's link ;) – user5398447
ah but yours has "Normalized CSS" checked, which is not what you see typically :) – tedski

4 Answers

442
votes

This code will remove the indentation and list bullets.

ul {
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/qeqtK/2/

10
votes
-webkit-padding-start: 0;

will remove padding added by webkit engine

4
votes

To maintain the bullets you can replace the list-style: none with list-style-position: inside or the shorthand list-style: inside:

ul {
  list-style-position: inside;
  padding-left: 0;
}


ul {
  list-style-position: inside;
  padding-left: 0;
}
<ul>
    <li>Milk</li>
    <li>Cheese
        <ul>
            <li>Blue cheese</li>
            <li>Feta</li>
        </ul>
    </li>
</ul>
-1
votes

Remove this from #info: 

    margin-left:auto;

Add this for your header:

#info p {
    text-align: center;
}

Do you need the fixed width etc.? I removed the in my opinion not necessary stuff and centered the header with text-align.

Sample
http://jsfiddle.net/Vc8CB/