Wouldn't it make more sense to have a pseudo-element for markers? <SCRIPT TYPE="text/css"> UL { list-style: disc outside} UL:Marker { color: red } </SCRIPT> ... <BODY> <UL> <LI>here is item one <LI>here is item two </UL> You don't have to change the marker or add a slew of new properties. At 12:45 PM 4/14/97 -0700, David Perrell wrote: >Dan Connolly wrote: >> Hmmm... it's not clear to me that the color of the 'disc' can >> be specified in CSS1. >> >> Can anybody come up with actual syntax that works? > ><SCRIPT TYPE="text/css"> >UL { list-style: disc outside; color: red } >SPAN { color: black } ></SCRIPT> >... ><BODY> ><UL> ><LI><SPAN>here is item one</SPAN> ><LI><SPAN>here is item two</SPAN> ></UL> > >A bit clumsy, but it works. > >Content markup would be cleaner if there were a 'marker-color' property >that determines the color of disc | circle | square | decimal | >lower-roman | upper-roman | lower-alpha | upper-alpha. > >Of course, if we have marker color, then we should surely have >'marker-font-family', 'marker-font-weight', 'marker-font-size', >'marker-font-style', 'marker-font-variant', and >'marker-text-decoration' (we shouldn't have to use an animated gif to >get blinking bullets!). > >------------------------- > >'marker-color' > >Value: <color> >Initial: Same as list-item color >Applies to: elements with 'display' value 'list-item' >Inherited: yes >Percentage values: N/A > > >This property is used to determine the color of the list-item marker if >'list-style-image' is 'none' or if the image pointed to by the URL >cannot be displayed. > > > OL { marker-color: red } /* red alphanumeric markers */ > UL { marker-color: rgb(0,0,255 } /* blue graphical markers */ > > >with similar declarations for other properties. > >David Perrell > > >Received on Monday, 14 April 1997 16:17:17 GMT
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