Adam Hardy wrote: > 1 4 7 > 2 5 8 > 3 6 9 > > I read the article "Do You Want To Do That With CSS? - Multiple Column Lists" > [1] by Holly Bergevin and John Gallant online about how to display lists > across > multiple columns and make the item order follow the columns rather than flow > along the rows. > > At the end they round off the article with the sentence "this technique is > only > useful for static pages, and cannot be made to easily work in a dynamic page > where unknown numbers of list items may be included ...." > > ... which is a slight drawback since that's exactly what I'd like to do!
I would think that if you're dynamically generating the pages, you could dynamically determine how many items are included in that particular page, and spit out the code to position it properly. So if you have nine items (as in your example), you spit out three divs, each holding a list with three items, with the starting value of each list set dynamically to begin the number following the last item in the previous list. If you have 12 items, you spit out the same three divs, but put four items in each list and adjust the start values. -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
