How to position two <li>'s within a nested <ul>? - css

Question

I am wanting to display <li>'s as squares in a horizontal line, and have nested squares within them positioned at the bottom left and bottom right of the containing square.
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I tried adding span's to the <li> but wasn't able to position them correctly.
I've gotten closer with a nested <ul> and two <li>'s within the nested <ul> but there is undesired space between the top level squares.
How do I get control of the spacing between the top level <li>'s?
jsFiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/rwone/4Hzp6/
HTML
<ul class="images_list">
<li class="style_one"><img src="http://dummyimage.com/50/ccc/fff&text=1.png">
<ul class="nested"><li class="delete_span"></li><li class="crop_span"></li></ul>
</li>
<li class="style_one"><img src="http://dummyimage.com/50/ccc/fff&text=2.png">
<ul class="nested"><li class="delete_span"></li><li class="crop_span"></li></ul>
</li>
<li class="style_one">
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/50/ccc/fff&text=3.png">
<ul class="nested"><li class="delete_span"></li><li class="crop_span"></li></ul>
</li>
<li class="style_one">
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/50/ccc/fff&text=4.png">
<ul class="nested"><li class="delete_span"></li><li class="crop_span"></li></ul>
</li>
<li class="style_one">
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/50/ccc/fff&text=5.png">
<ul class="nested"><li class="delete_span"></li><li class="crop_span"></li></ul>
</li>
</ul>
CSS
ul.images_list {
list-style: none;
margin: 0px !important;
padding: 0px !important;
}
ul.nested {
margin: 0px !important;
padding: 0px !important;
display: inline;
position: relative;
left: -54px;
}
li.style_one {
position:relative;
display:inline-block;
/*width: 50px;
height:50px*/
}
.delete_span {
width: 15px;
height: 15px;
background: red;
display: inline-block;
}
.crop_span {
width: 15px;
height: 15px;
background: green;
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
left: 20px;
}

Answer 1

It seams that the problem come from user agent stylesheet (on chrome). Chrome is adding a rules This SO question is talking about it.
It suggest to add ul { padding:0 } but that is not working on your case..
But It might get you on the direction.
ul, menu, dir {
display: block;
list-style-type: disc;
-webkit-margin-before: 1em;
-webkit-margin-after: 1em;
-webkit-margin-start: 0px;
-webkit-margin-end: 0px;
-webkit-padding-start: 40px;//I guess this one is the problem
}
I have tried to override this rules adding !important but it doesn't work.

Answer 2

This achieves the behaviour of what I wanted, I used div's within <li>'s:
http://jsfiddle.net/rwone/4Hzp6/6/
HTML
<ul class="images_list">
<li class="style_one"><img src="http://dummyimage.com/50/ccc/fff&text=1.png">
<div class="crop_it"></div><div class="delete_it"></div>
</li>
<li class="style_one"><img src="http://dummyimage.com/50/ccc/fff&text=2.png">
<div class="crop_it"></div><div class="delete_it"></div>
</li>
<li class="style_one">
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/50/ccc/fff&text=3.png">
<div class="crop_it"></div><div class="delete_it"></div>
</li>
<li class="style_one">
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/50/ccc/fff&text=4.png">
<div class="crop_it"></div><div class="delete_it"></div>
</li>
<li class="style_one">
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/50/ccc/fff&text=5.png">
<div class="crop_it"></div><div class="delete_it"></div>
</li>
</ul>
CSS
ul.images_list {
list-style: none;
margin: 0px !important;
padding: 0px !important;
}
li.style_one {
display: inline-block;
height: 50px;
margin-left: 15px;
position: relative;
width: 50px;
}
li.style_one:first-child {
margin-left: 0px;
}
.crop_it {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FF0000;
bottom: 0;
display: inline-block;
height: 15px;
left: 0;
position: absolute;
width: 15px;
z-index: 9;
}
.delete_it {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #008000;
bottom: 0;
display: inline-block;
height: 15px;
left: 35px;
position: absolute;
width: 15px;
}

Answer 3

Simple just change the class ul.nested position relative to position absolute and little bit changes in left and top or copy paste the code below:
CSS CODE:
ul.images_list {
list-style: none;
margin: 0px !important;
padding: 0px !important;
}
ul.nested {
margin: 0px !important;
padding: 0px !important;
display: inline;
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
top: 34px;
}
li.style_one {
position:relative;
display:inline-block;
/*width: 50px;
height:50px*/
}
.delete_span {
width: 15px;
height: 15px;
background: red;
display: inline-block;
}
.crop_span {
width: 15px;
height: 15px;
background: green;
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
left: 20px;
}