> Stu answer this comment: If there is a need for this then I might be > persuaded to produce a 'more v2'. Maybe Stu will make them if there is a lot > of comment asking for this all CSS more v2. Or we have to wait for the demo > that Chris talk about in one of is reply for this topic.
Read the whole thread, it is out there: http://icant.co.uk/sandbox/morecontentlinks/ > Anyway, an all CSS solution will be welcome. There is just no way to do this in CSS only unless you use a focus on the containing element. Any CSS solution in CSS2 with MSIE 6 still around has the following problem: - In order to remain keyboard accessible the trigger element HAS to be a link - You can only access elements inside this link Now HTML has the good idea that a link is an inline element and should only contain other inline elements. Putting whole tables into links or long passages of text to support CSS as the behaviour technology means you violate any idea of semantic markup we tried to get into the head of WYSIWYG and CMS developers in the last 5 years. Also think of accessibility and screen reader users - links are listed as an own navigation option. Stu's solution and CSS only dropdown menus that are keyboard accessible by nesting tables in links are just overengineering a dead cause. This is behaviour and it is really easy to do it with JavaScript - as I have proven with the provided example. In CSS is it is a hack and impedes markup. Would you make a whole paragraph a link? The JS Stu's solution uses is only there to avoid the dotted border around the link when you click it, nothing more. We had the same discussion about the oh so accessible and well made CSS dropdowns some days ago: http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/77801 There is no need to shoe-horn behaviour like this into CSS and sacrifice semantics on the way when it is perfectly logical to do it with a bit of JavaScript that results in style-able HTML elements. What is next? "Can we have FORM validation in HTML?" "Database lookups in CSS?" -- Chris Heilmann Book: http://www.beginningjavascript.com Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com Writing: http://icant.co.uk/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
