- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:52:17 +1000
- To: Barry <barry@polisource.com>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Barry wrote: > Floated list items are rendered left to right, which isn't the way most > people read lists. When the ul tag is used but the list still "ordered" > (see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2005Jun/0011.html ) > it's preferable for each column of a multicolumn list (a list with > floated li elements) to be ordered from top to bottom. I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Are you floating the li elements in a way that achieves to columns of list items, like this? 1. item one 2. item two 3. item three 4. item four However, you actually want a way for it to be rendered like this: 1. item one 3. item three 2. item two 4. item four If so, that's a presentational issue to be handled by a style sheet. In fact, it can already be achieved better using CSS3 Multi-column layout properties [1]. Unfortunately, support for it is currently limited. AFAIK, Mozilla has some support for it already. > I think that floating list items is one of the few if not the only style > that could change semantics inappropriately. Styling does not change semantics, it only affects the way the content is perceived. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/ -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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