- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:26:39 -0500 (EST)
- To: "webmaster@dors.sailorsite.net" <webmaster@dors.sailorsite.net>
- cc: "'Web Accessibility Initiative'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Except that using UL for indentation (as a presentation effect) is WRONG - see the HTML specification. People who are looking for lists want to know what is a list, not what has been indented. Charles On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Bruce Bailey wrote: Okay, if not tables (and not CSS) you could always use <UL>. This gets you the indentation and is not an abuse of HTML, but it will also start each indented section with a bullet. I am thinking it would go like this: Main document body. Blah Blah Blah. <UL> <LI>Level one indent. Blah Blah Blah. LI keeps paragraph text which wraps indented like you want. <P>To start a new paragraph with the indentation, but without another bullet, just use the P tag. If this goes on long enough, people might hardly notice the bullet at the beginning! <UL> <LI>This paragraph is indented to level two. Repeat this and the P trick as necessary. </UL> </UL> Back to main document body. Blah Blah Blah. Just one more technique! On Wednesday, December 08, 1999 9:09 AM, Jamie Fox [SMTP:jfox@fenix2.dol-esa.gov] wrote: > I had considered using tables but they are large documents with up to five > levels of indenting. Besides the burden on downloading the files via dial > in accounts in the field, our main audience, browsers seem to choke up a > bit on large tables. I've decided that in this instance the document would > not likely suffer significantly from the use of an older browser. Thanks > for the suggestion though. > > -Jamie > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Bailey [SMTP:bbailey@clark.net] > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 6:18 PM > To: 'Jamie Fox'; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org > Subject: RE: indenting > > Hurray! > > But I don't understand why you could not just put the section in question > in a two column table (border="0" of course). (The first column could > contain just "  " -- or you could use the width > attribute.) Using tables in this fashion is only a P3 violation. This is > certainly stylistically better than using blockquote or dir (although clear > NOT as good as using CSS). > > On Tuesday, December 07, 1999 6:05 PM, Jamie Fox > [SMTP:jfox@fenix2.dol-esa.gov] wrote: > > Thanks for everyone's help. I've decided to go with a style sheet. > There > > is a really helpful site at > http://builder.cnet.com/Authoring/CSS/ss02.html > > The article seems old but it served it's purpose quite well for me. > > > > -Jamie Fox > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Joan Piroch [SMTP:d4951@sccoast.net] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 12:21 PM > > To: Jamie Fox > > Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org > > Subject: Re: indenting > > > > At 03:13 PM 12/6/99 -0500, Jamie Fox wrote: > >> I want to indent sections of a document without using spaces or some > other > >> cheat. I want to do something similar to what <blockquote> does. Will > >> <DIR> do it and how will it hold up on older browsers? Thanks for your > >> help. > >> > >> -Jamie Fox > --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI 21 Mitchell Street, Footscray, VIC 3011, Australia (I've moved!)
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