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RE: list-style-type idea

From: Ian Tindale <ian_tindale@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:29:48 +0100
To: <www-style@w3.org>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf
> Of George Lund
> Sent: 18 September 2002 12:55
> To: www-style@w3.org
> Subject: list-style-type idea
> 
> 
> It would be nice to have another possible value for list-style-type,
> namely 'collapsible'.  This would mean that browsers implementing this
> suggestion could display the list in a collapsible tree-view style.
> 
> This would eliminate the need for a lot of JavaScript, and would mean
> that what is a relatively common GUI widget could be specified by
> authors with minimal fuss.  It would improve HTML coding, because such
> lists could be marked up with the <ul> element for non-CSS3 browsers.

Bit like 'display: none' then. In SVG, setting the display property to 'none' causes the affected element to be not rendered in the output tree.
Ian Tindale
Received on Wednesday, 18 September 2002 08:31:54 GMT

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