Re: Question on the spec re List Backgrounds

On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 03:32 , Nicholas Atkinson wrote:

> <ul style="background: red;">
>     <li>Unordered List Item</li>
>     <li>Unordered List Item</li>
> </ul>
>  
> The background of the list item text will obviously be red.  But 
> there will be a left-hand margin and bullet generated before each 
> list item text.  Should the background of this bullet and left-hand 
> margin be red or the background colour of its parent block? 

It depends on the margins and padding of the <ul> and <li> elements.

> In IE 6 and Opera 6.01 (on Windows) the bullet and margin do not 
> have a red background.  But in Netscape 6.1 (on Windows) 
> the background of the bullet and margin is red.
>  
> Who is correct as per the spec?

Both when you leave the padding and margins up to the UA stylesheet, 
because there is no normative UA style sheet. See 
http://www.subotnik.net/style/list-box-test.html

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Sunday, 31 March 2002 09:34:10 UTC