At 06:41 PM 4/18/2006, Patrick Lauke wrote:
> Tom Worthington
> ... suppressed the bullet points in their left hand menu by
setting the padding on the list items to zero: ul.wul{padding: 0px; ...
Actually, they haven't suppressed the bullets. It's just that the bullets
are off to the left, outside of the viewport ...
So is this good web design practice which we should use? Or is it a
work-around which will break?
I like the idea of using list elements for the menu. This way if you
display the menu without a style sheet (for disabled access or on a
handheld device) you get a useable result. With many fancy web
designs, if you switch off the style sheet, you get a mess.
As an example of this, which I will be showing at the meeting in
Canberra next month, I display menus as bulleted lists for a normal
computer browser, but change them to a numbered list for a hand held
device. On the handheld device you can use the numeric keypad to pick
an item form the list (press 1 for the first item, 2 for the second
and so on): <http://www.tomw.net.au/2005/wd/sahana3.shtml>.
Tom Worthington FACS HLM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 0419 496150
Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd ABN: 17 088 714 309
PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617 http://www.tomw.net.au/
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