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Firefox 3 displayed leading spaces in html text. Firefox 7 collapses adjacent spaces. How can I tell Firefox to display the leading and adjacent spaces?

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gcmozilla
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I have my bookmarks defined in an HTML file that is my home page. These bookmarks are categorized. This is how they would display in Firefox 3 ...

Category 

    Bookmark 1
    Bookmark 2

This is how they display in Firefox 7 ...

Category Bookmark 1 Bookmark2

How can I make Firefox 7 display the leading spaces?

I have my bookmarks defined in an HTML file that is my home page. These bookmarks are categorized. This is how they would display in Firefox 3 ... Category Bookmark 1 Bookmark 2 This is how they display in Firefox 7 ... Category Bookmark 1 Bookmark2 How can I make Firefox 7 display the leading spaces?

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You need to add some CSS code to restore the indention used in previous Firefox version.

Firefox 4 and later treat the DT element differently and that causes a quirk CSS rule (dl > dl) not to get applied.

  • resource://gre-resources/quirk.css line 220

Use this in Firefox 4 and later: 

<style>
dl > dt > dl { display: block; -moz-margin-start: 40px; }
</style>
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cor-el
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Chosen Solution

You need to add some CSS code to restore the indention used in previous Firefox version.

Firefox 4 and later treat the DT element differently and that causes a quirk CSS rule (dl > dl) not to get applied.

  • resource://gre-resources/quirk.css line 220

Use this in Firefox 4 and later: 

<style>
dl > dt > dl { display: block; -moz-margin-start: 40px; }
</style>
asajay
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I think this is the kind of solution I need to fix a similar problem. Please see this thread: https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/881454#answer-254986

How do we apply a fix such as that?

gcmozilla
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Thank you for the help. I should have supplied more information. This file originated with Netscape Navigator years ago. I use Compass Bookmarks to maintain it. I am not an HTML coder. Here is a sample of the code from the file (the file is displayed correctly in IE 9.0 as well as Firefox 3.6.23): 


   
<p>
       <DT><A HREF="http://www.facebook.com" ADD_DATE="1273166709" LAST_VISIT="0" LAST_MODIFIED="0" STATUS="0">Face Book</A>
       <DT><A HREF="http://www.filesonic.com/" ADD_DATE="1311435120" LAST_VISIT="0" LAST_MODIFIED="0" STATUS="0">Filesonic</A>
       <DT><A HREF="http://www.google.com" ADD_DATE="1009520078" LAST_VISIT="1018304430" LAST_MODIFIED="1009639774" STATUS="200">Google Search</A>
       <DT><A HREF="http://www.timeanddate.com/" ADD_DATE="1287429909" LAST_VISIT="0" LAST_MODIFIED="0" STATUS="0">Time and Date</A>
       <DT><A HREF="http://www.wunderground.com/US/TX/Dallas.html" ADD_DATE="1218534504" LAST_VISIT="0" LAST_MODIFIED="0" STATUS="0">Wunderground Dallas</A>
       <DT><A HREF="http://www.wunderground.com/maps/" ADD_DATE="1076939653" LAST_VISIT="0" LAST_MODIFIED="0" STATUS="200">Wunderground Weather</A>
       <DT><A HREF="http://www.youtube.com" ADD_DATE="1246305528" LAST_VISIT="0" LAST_MODIFIED="0" STATUS="0">You Tube Videos</A>
   
<p>


How would this file be modified? I was hoping to find a setting in Firefox to fix this issue as opposed to modifying the HTML file.

Thank you very much.

the-edmeister
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Add the code that cor-el posted above the < Title > Bookmarks < /Title > tags. I just tested it on a NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1 file and it works.

gcmozilla
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To the-edmeister and cor-el -- Thank you!