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Horizontal lists

Postby rbirkby » Tue May 29, 2007 7:41 pm

Making horizontal lists out of ULs, LIs etc is currently a hack.

You have to change from a list-item display type to an inline display type. Because of this "hack", you cannot have horizontal lists with bullets (images or other style bullets). Or rather, you can have a bullet but that's another hack (background-image, content injection).

So, can I propose a horizontal-list-item display type?

I obviously have not thought out the full consequences of this - for example, how would you handle nested lists with horizontal-list-item? Do you use a vertical indent for nest lists?

I'm just a simple web dev who is struggling to produce simple and elegant HTML+CSS without hacks.
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Postby zcorpan » Tue May 29, 2007 9:50 pm

You should raise this at www-style@w3.org. CSS is out of scope for WHATWG.

The proposal can continue to be discussed in this thread, though; I'm moving it to Off Topic.
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Postby Cerbera » Wed May 30, 2007 3:33 pm

Have you tried li { float: left; }?

How is changing the display type of an element a hack? How is background a hack? These are valid CSS properties.
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