RE: New bug in Tidy?

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Jelks Cabaniss wrote:

> 
> Dave Raggett wrote:
> 
> > My apologies for not having made this behavior clear in the
> > documentation. An <li> element without an enclosing list (ul or ol)
> > element is an error and gets reported to the user.
> 
> As it should.
> 
> > Originally, it
> > was corrected by wrapping a ul element around it, however this
> > caused the page to look quite different from how it would have
> > looked in Netscape prior to being tidied. By experiment I found that
> > using the style property to negatively indent the bullet gave a good
> > semblance of the original rendering. The style attribute will be
> > ignored by old browsers.
> 
> Tidy has been further expanded to "make it look good in Netscape 4.x"? ???
> Even
> with the "hack it until it looks good" yardstick, it truncates the
> beginning of
> the list item[s] in IE4.x, IE5.x, and Opera 3.x (and presumably Mozilla,
> though
> I don't have a recent build).
> 
> Could this not be made an option, as opposed to default behavior?

I will explore some more to see if a compromise is possible.

Regards,

-- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
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Received on Tuesday, 28 March 2000 12:44:10 UTC