Li item on two lines. Second line has no margin

Question

I'm currently working on an unordered list containing list items with taglines. I'm having a problem concerning one list item, which is long enough to take up two lines (See image)

I want it so that the second line is aligned with the first line. This is the HTML code i'm using. I used fontAwesome for the check images.

ul {    width: 300px;  }

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.4.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>  <ul class="fa-ul custom-list">    <li><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw"></i>List item on 1 line</li>    <li><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw"></i>List item on 1 line</li>    <li><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw"></i>This is a list item that actually takes up 2 lines. Looks ugly</li>  </ul>

I already tried to enter multiple   in between '2' and 'lines' but that seems like a really bad practice to me. I hope someone can help me with this problem.

Answer 1

This is because the tick is inline content so when the text wraps it will continue to flow as usual.

You can stop this behaviour by taking advantage of text-indent:

The text-indent property specifies how much horizontal space should be left before the beginning of the first line of the text content of an element.

text-indent (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-indent)

By supplying a negative text-indent you can tell the first line to shift a desired amount to the left. If you then specify a positive padding-left you can cancel this offset out.

In the following example a value of 1.28571429em is used because it is the width set on the .fa-fw by font-awesome.

ul {    width: 300px;  }  li {      padding-left: 1.28571429em;      text-indent: -1.28571429em;  }

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.4.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>  <ul class="fa-ul custom-list">      <li><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw"></i>List item on 1 line</li>      <li><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw"></i>List item on 1 line</li>      <li><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw"></i>This is a list item that actually takes up 2 lines. Looks ugly</li>  </ul>