Text-Indent:em-999; not working!

Discussion in 'CSS' started by Borduhh, Dec 28, 2011.

  1. #1
    Hey guys,

    I have used that tag a million times but for some reason on the logo of my website (http://www.outplaypokerchips.com) that will not work.

    Any ideas why?

    Nick
     
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    Borduhh, Dec 28, 2011 IP
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    drhowarddrfine Peon

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    You may have used it before but it's total nonsense and means nothing.
     
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    Borduhh Well-Known Member

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    I solved it and it is used for a ton of stuff???
     
    Borduhh, Dec 28, 2011 IP
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    Are you asking me or telling me? I'm sure you're asking me cause you definitely don't know anything.
     
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    Borduhh Well-Known Member

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    Listen sir, I don't know who you are but clearly you are speaking on a subject you have insufficient knowledge on.

    The css property text-indent is used all over the web, especially when you are using background images in CSS. This is so you can use more images in a CSS sprite to cut back the size of a website (especially in the e-commerce world).

    It is also simply used when a person wants to indent multiple paragraphs for say an article!
     
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    Yes, but in the hands of an idiot who uses 'em-999' as the value and claims it works, you have insufficient knowledge to comment on it.
     
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    Obviously it was a typo that I missed and the correct syntax is 'text-indent:-999em;' and the reason is because the default container around it had a 'text-align:right;' tag.
     
    Borduhh, Dec 28, 2011 IP
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    Is it really that big of a deal? Leave him alone you look like an idiot by trying to call him out.

    Borduhh, glad you got it to work. I was having this same problem earlier which inclined me to click and visit. My next inclination was to tell you there had to be something with higher priority blocking it, but glad to see you got it sorted out.
     
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    @Borduhh - and it took you seven posts to figure that out?
    You were doing the same thing?!!!! And who is calling who an idiot?!!! HAH!

    The quality of DP posters never fails to astound me.
     
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    Sir, I understand your frustration. But hijacking a support thread to call someone an idiot is really necessary.

     
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    I know. That's why I did it.
     
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