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Asked: 2026-05-30T03:49:49+00:00

I am having trouble getting my LI elements to align closer to the left

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I am having trouble getting my LI elements to align closer to the left side of their container. I have my HTML below, and when it displays the LI elements have a margin on the left of about 30 pixels. I would like to see how I could make that flush against their container, and then once I understand that technique, I can adjust it so there is some left padding.

Btw, I did create a fiddle with this to make it easier to see the problem, but unfortunately jsFiddle shows the result I want to see! If the below HTML is copied/pasted to a file and brought up in Chrome, it looks different (each LI is shifted to the right).

Here is the HTML…

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
    <style type="text/css">
        .parentSelectorBox
        {
        }
        .parentSelectorBox .fieldsBox
        {
            border: 1px solid blue;
            width: 250px;
            margin: 5px;
            float: left;
        }
        .parentSelectorBox .actionButtonsBox
        {
            border: 1px solid blue;
            width: 100px;
            margin: 5px;
            float: left;
        }
        .parentSelectorBox .availableFields
        {
            border: 1px solid pink;
            height: 100px;
            overflow: auto;
        }
        .parentSelectorBox ul li
        {
            height: 20px;
            list-style-type: none;
            margin: 0 10 0 -15px;
            padding: 0 10 0 -15px;
            white-space: nowrap;
            marker-offset: 105px;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="parentSelectorBox" class="parentSelectorBox">
        <div id="availableFieldsBox" class="fieldsBox">
            <div id="availableFields" class="availableFields">
                <ul>
                    <li>A</li>
                    <li>A</li>
                    <li>A</li>
                    <li>A</li>
                    <li>A</li>
                    <li>A</li>
                    <li>A</li>
                    <li>A</li>
                    <li>A</li>
                    <li>A</li>
                    <li>A</li>
                    <li>A</li>
                    <li>A</li>
                    <li>A</li>
                </ul>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to remove the padding property of the ul:

    .parentSelectorBox ul {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0
}
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