CSS - Ok To Use Span Class="mycustomfont" Or Is There A Better Way? H1, P1, Etc.

Hi,

I'm trying to build a nav using css, I need to style each <li> within the nav becuase they need to be different lengths on the page. I have had it working fine on IE but I can'#t get it working for for any other browser.

Does soneone know how I can style each of my list items accordingly, notice the different block lengths for each one which is very important.

I have tried both id="Style" and class="Style" and no joy, I have also tried #nav ul li li li li li a:hover in my style without id or class in my HTML

Here is my Html

PHP Code:
<DIV id="nav"> 
              <ul>
                <li id="1"><a href="Home">Home</a></li>
                <li id="2"><a href="About-us">About us</a></li>
                <li id="3"><a href="FlexNews">FlexNews</A></li>
                 <li id="4"><a href="Careers">Careers</A></li>
                <li id="5"><a href="Contact">Contact</A></li>
              </ul>
</div> 





Pretty straight forward, now my css


PHP Code:
#nav
{
    width:1005px;
    vertical-align: middle;
    text-align: left;
} 
#nav ul
{
    list-style: none;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
} 
#nav li
{
    float: left;
    text-align: left;
} 
 
#1 a{
    line-height: 20px;
    float: left;
    width: 215px;
    display: block;
    color: #000000;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-align: left;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 11px;
    text-indent: 17px;
    border-right-width: 2px;
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-right-color: #FFFFFF;
} 
#1 a:hover
{
    line-height: 20px;
    float: left;
    width: 215px;
    display: block;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-align: left;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 11px;
    background-color: #33A02C;
    text-indent: 17px;
    border-right-width: 2px;
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-right-color: #FFFFFF;
}

#2 a{
    line-height: 20px;
    float: left;
    width: 211px;
    display: block;
    color: #000000;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-align: left;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 11px;
    text-indent: 17px;
    border-right-width: 2px;
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-right-color: #FFFFFF;



} 
#2 a:hover
{
    line-height: 20px;
    float: left;
    width: 211px;
    display: block;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-align: left;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 11px;
    background-color: #33A02C;
    text-indent: 17px;
    border-right-width: 2px;
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-right-color: #FFFFFF;
}
#3 a
{
    line-height: 20px;
    float: left;
    width: 211px;
    display: block;
    color: #000000;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-align: left;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 11px;
    text-indent: 17px;
    border-right-width: 2px;
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-right-color: #FFFFFF;
} 
#3 a:hover
{
    line-height: 20px;
    float: left;
    width: 211px;
    display: block;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-align: left;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 11px;
    background-color: #33A02C;
    text-indent: 17px;
    border-right-width: 2px;
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-right-color: #FFFFFF;
}
#4 a
{
    line-height: 20px;
    float: left;
    width: 184px;
    display: block;
    color: #000000;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-align: left;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 11px;
    text-indent: 17px;
    border-right-width: 2px;
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-right-color: #FFFFFF;
} 
#4 a:hover
{
    line-height: 20px;
    float: left;
    width: 184px;
    display: block;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-align: left;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 11px;
    background-color: #33A02C;
    text-indent: 17px;
    border-right-width: 2px;
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-right-color: #FFFFFF;
}
#5 a
{
    line-height: 20px;
    float: left;
    width: 183px;
    display: block;
    color: #000000;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-align: left;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 11px;
    text-indent: 17px;

} 
#5 a:hover
{
    line-height: 20px;
    float: left;
    width: 183px;
    display: block;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-align: left;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 11px;
    background-color: #33A02C;
    text-indent: 17px;

} 






Here is an exmple link http://dev.121design.co.uk/flextrade2/

Works fine in IE but not in Firefox, heres hopling someone can help.

Thanks in Advance, tried so many different methods and none seem to work.

Cheers,
Stuart

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Code:

<body topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0">

in the web pages. Does anyone know how to put this in a stylesheet so that I don't have to put this code in every <body> tag when I create a new page?

I've searched all over and can't find a reasonable resolution. Thanks

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Interesting problem... I have a span tag with a small font in it. When I don't specify a doctype, there is no red "padding" for lack of a better word. When I specify a strict xhtml doctype, I do get "red padding".

I tried setting the padding to zero, but it didn't help. How can I get rid of the "red padding"?

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" dir="ltr" lang="en">


		<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
			<tr>
				<td style="background: red; padding: 0px;">
					<span style="font-size: 50%; background: blue; padding: 0px;">
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					</span>
				</td>
			</tr>
		</table>

Thanks!

I have a very simple question:

I have this html code:
Code:

<div id="text">
<p><a>text</a></p>
<p><a class="red">text</a></p>
<p><a>text</a></p>
</div>

And this CSS style:
Code:

.red {  color: red;  }    
#text a{  color: blue;  }

I would like to apply the .red class, but it does not work, because the #text a overrides it. How can I solve that? It is just an example because it is a cause of a problem generated by a CMS, and I can only play with the CSS, not with the HTML side.

what is the equivilant to <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> in css?

i've tried
PHP Code:
 table
{
    border-spacing: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    border-colapse: colapse;
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 1px;
}
td
{
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 1px;
    padding: 2px;
} 





That makes the width 2px wide though. I want it to only be one. And the padding seems to be messed up as well.