Re: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread Martin Heiden
Paul, on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 11:39 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: What's wrong with this? The following are the days of the week Monday Tuesday Wednesday regards Martin ** The discussion list for http://webstandard

Re: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
Regrettably not. I'd also love some way to associate a header element with content, much like fieldset's legend element does, but unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, because it'd be potentially hellish to make work consistently with some automated content management stuff!) no such thing exists.

Re: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread Stephen Stagg
Sarcasm Alert :) Stephen. On 31 Jan 2006, at 11:09, Martin Heiden wrote: Paul, on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 11:39 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: What's wrong with this? The following are the days of the week Monday Tuesday Wednesday regards Martin **

Re: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread Lea de Groot
On 31/01/2006, at 8:39 PM, Paul Collins wrote: Just wondering if there is such a thing as a header tag for a HTML list, or , such as the TH tag or the Summary tag for a table? No, sadly. The only way to 'associate' a header with some following content is to wrap the set in a div, or similar

Re: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread Ric Raftis
G'day Paul, I haven't done coding on this, however I think it may be possible by setting a class for your bold heading with no bottom padding or margin and then using an ordered list. Regards, Ric Paul Collins wrote: Paul Collins wrote: Hello all. Just wondering if there is such a thin

Re: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread Paul Collins
ginal Message - From: Stephen Stagg To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:33 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] list's with header text Sarcasm Alert :)Stephen.On 31 Jan 2006, at 11:09, Martin Heiden wrote:> Paul,>> on Tuesday, January 31, 2

Re: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread Paul Collins
would work well though, just a whim really.    Cheers mate Paul - Original Message - From: Ric Raftis To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] list's with header text G'day Paul,I haven't done codin

RE: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread Patrick Lauke
> Lea de Groot > Wouldn't > > > be nice? :) So what do you do when you have 2 or more elements that the heading refers to? etc? It's not really a scalable solution, IMHO. As someone already mentioned, the source order should be enough to inform what the heading refers to, without the ne

RE: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread kvnmcwebn
patrick wrote "As someone already mentioned, the source order should be enough to inform what the heading refers to, without the need for explicit association." sorry i dont understand this could someone please explain? -best kvnmcwebn ** Th

RE: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread Patrick Lauke
> kvnmcwebn >> patrick wrote >> "As someone already mentioned, the source order should be >> enough to inform >> what the heading refers to, without the need for explicit >> association." > > sorry i dont understand this could someone please explain? If you have a heading, followed by some oth

Re: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread Lea de Groot
On 31/01/2006, at 10:54 PM, Patrick Lauke wrote: It's not really a scalable solution, IMHO. Possibly true, but it doesn't make the concept entirely useless. As someone already mentioned, the source order should be enough to inform what the heading refers to, without the need for explicit

RE: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-02-01 Thread kvnmcwebn
hi, for a vertical navigation bar with multiple headings like this: Buncrana Town Business Directory Accomodation Directory . Community Groups Clubs . so on... What is the proper heading to use(h1, h2,

Re: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-02-01 Thread Darren West
I would use:       Buncrana Town                     Community               Where 'bananas' is replaced with a semantically suitable name such as main for main navigation or supp for supplemental etc... I would use h3 as long as it fits in with the rest of your mar

RE: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-02-01 Thread kvnmcwebn
ok thanks, just to clarify a point: what odds that the ul id have a semantically suitable name-beside making sense to people working in the code after me? -thanks again kvnmcewbn ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-02-01 Thread Darren West
Exactly for that point; IMHO decribing the content rather than the presentation makes your markup easier to read, style and manage by whomever - users, coders, accessibility tools, browsers, search engines, and yourself,  this is why web standards are so important. Some interesting reading on sugge