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vik_pa

06-13-2003, 06:17 AM

I am having difficulty displaying the following in a html document:

1. blah blah
(bullet point) blah blah

vik_pa

06-13-2003, 06:20 AM

lets try that again!!!

1. blah blah
(bullet point) blah blah
2. blah blah
(bullet point) blah blah-

vik_pa

06-13-2003, 06:30 AM

thanks. just another quick question: what is the point in having </li>. it works fine without this???

Charles

06-13-2003, 06:39 AM

<ul type="disc"> must be some kind of MSIE specific thing because it's not valid HTML (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/lists.html#edef-UL). Use instead:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Example</title>
<style type="text/css">
ul {list-style-type:disc}
</style>
<ol>
<li>blah1</li>
<ul>
<li>blah</li>
<li>blah</li>
<li>blah</li>
</ul>
<li>blah2</li>
<ul>
<li>blah</li>
<li>blah</li>
<li>blah</li>
</ul>
<li>blah3</li>
<ul>
<li>blah</li>
<li>blah</li>
<li>blah</li>
</ul>
</ol>

Charles

06-13-2003, 06:44 AM

Originally posted by vik_pa
thanks. just another quick question: what is the point in having </li>. it works fine without this??? In HTML, with several elements the start and/or the end tags are optional. The LI element is like the P element in that the end tags are optional (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/lists.html#edef-LI). It's not a MSIE thing. Note however, no tags are optional in XHTML.

vik_pa

06-13-2003, 07:05 AM

right now I have another problem. I want to output the following:

(bullet point)
-
-
-
...

hastx

06-15-2003, 02:59 PM

You can insert the appropriate hyphens when needed like this

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Example</title>
<style type="text/css">
ul {list-style-type:disc}
</style>
<ol>
<li>blah1</li>
<ul>
<li>blah</li>
<li>blah</li>
<li>blah</li>
</ul>
<li>blah2</li>
<ul>
<li>blah<br>- sub-blah1<br>- sub-blah2<br>- sub-blah3</li>
<li>blah</li>
<li>blah</li>
</ul>
<li>blah3</li>
<ul>
<li>blah</li>
<li>blah</li>
<li>blah</li>
</ul>
</ol>

Use the entity charecter in place of the hyphens

You could also nest the <ul>'s

Charles

06-15-2003, 04:17 PM

Originally posted by hastx

<li>blah<br>- sub-blah1<br>- sub-blah2<br>- sub-blah3 But that will give you a list that is not properly marked up. The proper method, one that will work on any 21st century graphical browser - and MSIE is not a 21st century browser, is as follows:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Example</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<ul>
<li>fee</li>
<li>fie</li>
<li>foe</li>
<li>fum</li>
</ul>

As a very poor alternative you might want to use:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Example</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<ul>
<li>- fee</li>
<li>- fie</li>
<li>- foe</li>
<li>- fum</li>
</ul>

Charles

06-15-2003, 04:22 PM

Originally posted by Dave Clark
Maybe IE-only? Perhaps. It's certainly not valid HTML. To do that in a valid, cross browser way use:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Example</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<ul>
<li>fee</li>
<li>fie</li>
<li>foe</li>
<li>fum</li>
</ul>

hastx

06-15-2003, 05:03 PM

Originally posted by Charles
[font=georgia]But that will give you a list that is not properly marked up. The proper method, one that will work on any 21st century graphical browser - and MSIE is not a 21st century browser,

I shouldn't have used the strict flavor, i cut and pasted. what do you mean by 21st century? I tried it under IE, MOZ, Opera, and konquerer and it renders fine.

Charles

06-15-2003, 05:10 PM

Originally posted by hastx
I shouldn't have used the strict flavor, i cut and pasted. what do you mean by 21st century? I tried it under IE, MOZ, Opera, and konquerer and it renders fine. I tried it under MSIE 6.0 and it didn't seem to work. That's all that I meant.

Charles

06-15-2003, 05:30 PM

The CSS2 Specification became a W3C Recommendation on 12-May-1998 and MSIE still cannot get it right. One is tempted to ask when you are going to give up your unnatural affection for that thing.

Jona

06-15-2003, 09:07 PM

I don't know if my opinion would be appreciated or accepted in this forum--I don't want my membership to be revoked. :rolleyes: (Please tell me if it is against any rules that may exist. I promise not to say anything ugly.)

Jona

Jona

06-15-2003, 09:23 PM

OK, I see. Will keep quiet. ;)

Jona

vik_pa

06-16-2003, 10:47 AM

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Example</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<ul>
<li>fee</li>
<li>fie</li>
<li>foe</li>
<li>fum</li>
</ul>

The above doesnt work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Charles

06-16-2003, 02:17 PM

Originally posted by vik_pa
The above doesnt work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It workd in Mozilla and Opera.

Jona

06-16-2003, 02:19 PM

Charles, in IE6 it doesn't work. I haven't tried it in any other browsers... Yet. ;)

Jona