- From: Benjamin C. W. Sittler <bsittler@prism.nmt.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 13:46:21 -0600
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
For browsers supporting collapsed lists, I suggest we use the ID attribute
to indicate those which are or are not collapsed initially, although it
really might be better to add a STYLE attribute to every HTML element...
<LI CLASS=DirList STYLE=Collapsed>
....
</LI>
and in the stylesheet:
LI.DirList : Font.Family = Courier
LI[style = COLLAPSED] : List.Style = Accordian & Collapsed
LI[style = OPEN] : List.Style = Accordian & Expanded
Yes, this would be providing *extremely* abusable presentation-oriented
markup, but the underlying concept is one of presentation. Browsers
incapable of or averse to (i.e. through user preferences) collapsing lists
could safely ignore the stylesheet and/or the STYLE attribute.
my 2c
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Benjamin C. W. Sittler
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