Mark J. Reed wrote: >This is Yet Another Pure-CSS Popups Question; I didn't see my >particular query addressed in the archive, so I apologize if the >solution is there and I just missed it. > >I'm using the technique to provide selection hints in a tabbed >interface; roll over the tab, get a description of why you might pick >that tab. You can see a partial, anonymized version of the page here: > http://thereeds.org/~mreed/test_css.html. > >The problem is that the most natural form for the description, based >on the source documentation and the customer, is a bulleted list. But >an unordered list is illegal inside an anchor, so the page won't >validate in its current form. > > Hi Mark, Are you sure? I thought a Suckerfish menu has <ul>'s for the submenu's inside the <a>'s of the menu, and is validating as well.
>The solutions I can think of are three: > >1. use a series of <span>s instead of <li>s, but style them as list >items with CSS; > >2. do the popup with JavaScript instead of CSS, so the text doesn't >have to be within an anchor; > >3. leave it as-is and don't sweat the lack of validation. > >Now, the full interface actually requires JavaScript, so I wouldn't be >orphaning any users if I went with #2; it just feels clunkier than the >CSS technique. But option #1 feels clunkier still. > >I could live with any of the above, but if someone has a better idea, >I'd love to hear it. > >Thanks in advance for any help. > > Then: Option 4. Use a Suckerfish model, without links in the submenu's. Then for IE you need the sf-hover.js, but as you said a bit of javascript is tolerable. Greetings, francky ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
