Question about nested lists.
How am I supposed to go about doing this? If I code a nested list like so:
<ol>
<li>Item 1</li>
<li>Item 2</li>
<ol type="a">
<li>Item a</li>
<li>Item b</li>
</ol>
<li>Item 3</li>
</ol>I'll get an error message saying under xhtml 1.0 transitional as follows:
Quote: Line 19, column 9:
^
Error: element "ol" not allowed here; assuming missing "li" start-tagLine 23, column 6:
- Item 3
^
Error: element "li" not allowed here; possible cause is an inline element containing a block-level elementLine 24, column 4:
^
Error: end tag for "li" omitted; end tags are required in XML for non-empty elements; empty elements require an end tag or the start tag must end with "/>"
Alright, so I take it I'm not supposed to nest lists like this. What is the right way to do it?
Suzanne posted this at 22:02 — 13th August 2002.
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<ol><li>Item 1</li>
<li>Item 2 <-----------------------not here
<ol type="a">
<li>Item a</li>
<li>Item b</li>
</ol>
</li> <--------------------------here
<li>Item 3</li>
</ol>
The nested list needs to go inside the list item.
Megan posted this at 01:40 — 14th August 2002.
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You know what, I think I had that figured out a couple months ago but I completely forgot! Shows you how good my memory is.
THanks for reminding me
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Suzanne posted this at 01:47 — 14th August 2002.
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De nada. Only one of many minute adjustments in thinking needed to move over to XHTML/XML. It's an interesting journey, nothing has changed a lot, just everything seems to have changed a little bit.
Suzanne posted this at 01:49 — 14th August 2002.
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whoa, talk about serendipity -- I went away from here and immediately read a link to this: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/list-indent.html how to style lists. heh. I thought it might be of interest.
The Webmistress posted this at 07:17 — 14th August 2002.
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Thanks for that Suzanne
Megan posted this at 17:27 — 14th August 2002.
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Another question re: xhtml compatibility. How am I supposed to link to and external JavaScript?
If I do this: <script language="javascript" src="script.js"></script>, I get an error message upon validation saying that the required attribute "type" is not specified. If I put in the "type" attribute, the page breaks in NS 4.x. Is there a way to have this validate AND work in NS? Or will I have to accept that one error?
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Suzanne posted this at 18:25 — 14th August 2002.
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<script type="text/javascript" src="script.js"></script> should work in Netscape fine? It doesn't?
Megan posted this at 18:49 — 14th August 2002.
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Okay, sorry, I didn't know I was supposed to put text/ (dumb, I guess..)
Suzanne posted this at 19:19 — 14th August 2002.
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You might find the professional version of html validator more helpful than the w3c validator, if you're not sure about some of the little details here and there. It has VERY helpful error messages -- it tells you what's wrong, and what the right things are.
I'm telling you, it's just the little details, lol. They get you (and me) every time! I was having a devil of a time with a style sheet not working, and I validated it and couldn't see the problem, but the styles were not working. Over and over, for hours it seemed. Then I realized I had put type="text/javascript" instead of type="text/css" in the .
*sigh*
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