- From: Ann Navarro <ann@webgeek.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:16:13 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
Tantek mentioned back in June:
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:47:46 -0700
From: "Tantek Celik" <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
To: Ian Hickson <py8ieh=mozilla@bath.ac.uk>, "www-style" <www-style@w3.org>
CC: Robert Stevahn <rstevahn@boi.hp.com>, glazou_2000@yahoo.fr
Message-ID: <1251189637-180300346@psdbay.com>
Subject: Re: Nested Lists and adjacent bullets
From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh=mozilla@bath.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, Jun 13, 2000, 1:45 PM
<snip>
> All fine and good so far. However, if you have the nested list as the
> first node of the outer list, you end up with this:
>
> Document:
>
> <ol>
> <li>
> <ol>
> <li>
> <p>bar</p>
> </li>
> </ol>
> </li>
> </ol>
>
>
> Frame construction:
>
> +<ol>--------------------------------------+
> | +<li>----------------------------+ |
> | | +<ol>------------------------+ | |
> | | | +<li>--------------+ | | |
> | +---+ | | +---+ | +<p>-----------+ | | | |
> | | 1 | | | | 1 | | | bar | | | | |
> | +---+ | | +---+ | +--------------+ | | | |
> | | | +------------------+ | | |
> | | +----------------------------+ | |
> | +--------------------------------+ |
> +------------------------------------------+
>
>
> Rendering:
>
> 1 1 bar
FWIW, this is how IE5/Mac renders the above markup. Actually, with periods
after the numbers, more like this:
1. 1. bar
--------
This rendering in IE5/Mac is erroneous.
LI is a block element, and should in no way be presented, by default, in a
horizontal fashion. The result should have been
1.
1. bar
Ann Navarro
(reporting consensus from the WG)
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