htmlText unordered lists

[akiersky]

Hi all,
Ive been searching everywhere to try and find a way to add a bit more styling to my htmlText fields, apparently the flash developers really half-*****ed the abilities of html and especially css.
my biggest complaint would be with the unordered lists, the giant, ugly, black bullets.
these things would break all but the worst designs and stand out like a sore thumb in every use I could find.
anyone have a way to remove/change these?

thanks!
ak

[creatify]

in my experience, it takes a number of css tags to get this effect, but it is possible to customize an indented bullet list without using traditional list tags.

see this thread for explanation: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=314686

[akiersky]

thanks creatify!
i actually ended up using a similar solution to that, and in the process found that a lot more of the ascii characters are available in flash than they say. I used the bullet ascii code (& # 8 2 2 6;) and wrapped that in a font tag to allow for easy sizing, as well as color coding.

Another thing I found that could be helpful to others is, the documentation states;

"<ol> and <ul>, they do not modify how your list is rendered."

however, you can still wrap your li tags in these separately to allow for two different list styles, in my case, one list further indented and more spacing.

thanks!
ak