Numbers and Bullet points

liunx · Jan 9, 2008

I am having difficulty displaying the following in a html document: 
 
1. blah blah 
(bullet point) blah blahlets try that again!!! 
 
1. blah blah 
(bullet point) blah blah 
2. blah blah 
(bullet point) blah blah-thanks. just another quick question: what is the point in having </li>. it works fine without this???<ul type="disc"> must be some kind of MSIE specific thing because it's not valid HTML (<a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/lists.html#edef-UL">http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/lists.html#edef-UL</a>). Use instead: 
 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 
<title>Example</title> 
<style type="text/css"> 
ul {list-style-type:disc} 
</style> 
<ol> 
<li>blah1</li> 
<ul> 
<li>blah</li> 
<li>blah</li> 
<li>blah</li> 
</ul> 
<li>blah2</li> 
<ul> 
<li>blah</li> 
<li>blah</li> 
<li>blah</li> 
</ul> 
<li>blah3</li> 
<ul> 
<li>blah</li> 
<li>blah</li> 
<li>blah</li> 
</ul> 
</ol>Originally posted by vik_pa 
thanks. just another quick question: what is the point in having </li>. it works fine without this??? In HTML, with several elements the start and/or the end tags are optional. The LI element is like the P element in that the end tags are optional (<a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/lists.html#edef-LI">http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/lists.html#edef-LI</a>). It's not a MSIE thing. Note however, no tags are optional in XHTML.right now I have another problem. I want to output the following: 
 
(bullet point) 
- 
- 
- 
...You can insert the appropriate hyphens when needed like this 
 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 
<title>Example</title> 
<style type="text/css"> 
ul {list-style-type:disc} 
</style> 
<ol> 
<li>blah1</li> 
<ul> 
<li>blah</li> 
<li>blah</li> 
<li>blah</li> 
</ul> 
<li>blah2</li> 
<ul> 
<li>blah &#45 sub-blah1 &#45 sub-blah2 &#45 sub-blah3</li> 
<li>blah</li> 
<li>blah</li> 
</ul> 
<li>blah3</li> 
<ul> 
<li>blah</li> 
<li>blah</li> 
<li>blah</li> 
</ul> 
</ol> 
 
Use the entity charecter in place of the hyphens 
 
You could also nest the <ul>'sOriginally posted by hastx 
 
<li>blah &#45 sub-blah1 &#45 sub-blah2 &#45 sub-blah3 But that will give you a list that is not properly marked up. The proper method, one that will work on any 21st century graphical browser - and MSIE is not a 21st century browser, is as follows: 
 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 
<title>Example</title> 
<style type="text/css"> 
 
</style> 
<ul> 
<li>fee</li> 
<li>fie</li> 
<li>foe</li> 
<li>fum</li> 
</ul> 
 
 
As a very poor alternative you might want to use: 
 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 
<title>Example</title> 
<style type="text/css"> 
 
</style> 
<ul> 
<li>- fee</li> 
<li>- fie</li> 
<li>- foe</li> 
<li>- fum</li> 
</ul>Originally posted by Dave Clark 
Maybe IE-only? Perhaps. It's certainly not valid HTML. To do that in a valid, cross browser way use: 
 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 
<title>Example</title> 
<style type="text/css"> 
<a class="postlink" href="http://forums.webdeveloper.com/images/smilies/smile.gif">http://forums.webdeveloper.com/images/smilies/smile.gif</a>)} 
--> 
</style> 
<ul> 
<li>fee</li> 
<li>fie</li> 
<li>foe</li> 
<li>fum</li> 
</ul>Originally posted by Charles 
But that will give you a list that is not properly marked up. The proper method, one that will work on any 21st century graphical browser - and MSIE is not a 21st century browser, 
 
I shouldn't have used the strict flavor, i cut and pasted. what do you mean by 21st century? I tried it under IE, MOZ, Opera, and konquerer and it renders fine.Originally posted by hastx 
I shouldn't have used the strict flavor, i cut and pasted. what do you mean by 21st century? I tried it under IE, MOZ, Opera, and konquerer and it renders fine. I tried it under MSIE 6.0 and it didn't seem to work. That's all that I meant.The CSS2 Specification became a W3C Recommendation on 12-May-1998 and MSIE still cannot get it right. One is tempted to ask when you are going to give up your unnatural affection for that thing.I don't know if my opinion would be appreciated or accepted in this forum--I don't want my membership to be revoked.

(Please tell me if it is against any rules that may exist. I promise not to say anything ugly.) 
 
JonaOK, I see. Will keep quiet.

Jona<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 
<title>Example</title> 
<style type="text/css"> 
 
</style> 
<ul> 
<li>fee</li> 
<li>fie</li> 
<li>foe</li> 
<li>fum</li> 
</ul> 
 
The above doesnt work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Originally posted by vik_pa 
The above doesnt work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It workd in Mozilla and Opera.Charles, in IE6 it doesn't work. I haven't tried it in any other browsers... Yet.

Jona

Numbers and Bullet points

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