Comments on: Consistent List Markup

By: Cosiu

Cosiu — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:53:17 +0000

Does anybody knows out there how to qsort an unordered list..?

all best

By: aj

aj — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:43:16 +0000

Ahh opps, nvm, I’ll leave stuff alone now. Sorry about that

By: Andy Pearson

Andy Pearson — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:24:10 +0000

Cheers AJ, though the code is now incorrect, the markup must be all in one line to remove the whitespace, i edited it and put it back to the way it was.

By: aj

aj — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:11:08 +0000

Fixed it for you. The code plugin breaks everything down by where the line breaks are, so it didn’t seperate the code like it should have. Stupid thing

By: Andy Pearson

Andy Pearson — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:27:57 +0000

Yup, if you look at the source file, you can see this method, it is also described at the bottom of the article, trouble is the markup display plugin over here on Devlounge seems to render it all in one line for some reason.

And your right, it does help solve alot of IE quirks, I seem to remember it is triggered when you set the internal anchors to display block.

By: Aaron Bassett

Aaron Bassett — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:03:54 +0000

I’ve encountered this problem alot in IE when creating navigation menus. And my prefered method of writing up my lists to remove whitespace is like:

One >

Two >

Three >

Four >

same principle as your post but I just find the structure easier to read as it is closer to the normal list structure.

By: Life Update | blog.critical

Life Update | blog.critical — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:38:07 +0000

[...] Devlounge is a great little web design site, and I recently got the chance to post my article on Consistent List Markup over there, it’s a great honor to see my words on somewhere other than this blog, and I will hopefully publish more tutorials over there in the coming months. Devlounge V2 also bought with it a new community powered by the kick arse Vanilla, its pretty slow over there at the moment (I count 3 members) but I’m hoping it will flourish into a great place to go and talk web design. [...]

By: aj

aj — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:14:50 +0000

Thanks for the additional resources Johan

By: Johan

Johan — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:39:40 +0000

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if ever need to make a centered floated menu for IE 5 MAC (a rare case)

http://www.brunildo.org/test/NavBar2.html
(example 9}

By: Johan

Johan — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:59:53 +0000

Have a look here for centered floated menus:

- 2 examples (with known width or no width)

http://cssplay.co.uk/menus/centered.html

By: Andy Pearson

Andy Pearson — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:10:00 +0000

Very true Johan, there are numerous methods to remove the white space, and most of the time you will be doing something much more complex with the list anyway, so floating left or right shouldn’t be a problem.

Using floats can get complicated, and I’m pretty sure (though happy to be proved wrong!) that you could not use floats to create a horizontally centered list. This article served as a way to get the technique “out there” and hopefully it will help someone!

I’m glad you read the article, and glad it got you thinking!

By: Johan

Johan — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:44:33 +0000

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Also you have to keep in mind to clear any floats, if necessary. Various methods can be used for this.