Re: LI attributes

Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>

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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 94 05:06:18 EDT
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From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
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Subject: Re: LI attributes
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> ><!ATTLIST LI
> >        icon     %URL;  #IMPLIED -- image for use in place of bullet --
> >        label   CDATA   #IMPLIED -- when you can't show the icon image --
> >>
> >
> >This seems to be widely used & currently supported, were the attributes left
> >off by mistake?
> 
> Could you give some details/evidence about this support? Are you
> sure folks aren't doing something like:
> 
> 	<dl>
> 	<dt><img src="dot.gif">
> 	<dd>item
> 	...
> 	</dl>

I guess so: using dt/dd you'd get

     xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx
     xxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx

         x

            xxxxxxxxxxxxx x xxxxxxxxxxx
            xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx

instead of having the bullet inlined...

While we're at it, did we ever get round to defining a HTML3 attrib for LI

     NEWVAL   NUMBER   #IMPLIED

so that OL's can start numbering lists at a specific value instead of 1 ?
I can't find a reference to it anywhere

///Peter