At 06:22 AM 8/8/2006, Christian Heilmann wrote:
Don't bother with list-style image but use list-style none on BOTH UL
and LI and then use padding + background image and all is fine.
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/vertical05.htm
Hey Christian,
I've never seeen the need to apply list-style to *both* UL & LI --
and the listamatic example you cite applies it only to UL. Could you
please elaborate on this niggly little point?
Thanks,
Paul
PS: Frankly, since the list-style properties apply only to elements
with {display: list-item}, I'm a little surprised that it's correctly
applicable to UL at all and not just LI, but I guess it's just a
quirk of CSS that we can give a LIST CONTAINER a LIST-ITEM
display. When it is applied to UL, I assume that its child LIs
inherit the property, but I don't see the inherent advantage to a
rule like ul {list-style...} over li {list-style...}. Myself, I
always roll my own lists just with li {list-style-type: none;}.
CSS 2.1 Specification
12 Generated content, automatic numbering, and lists
12.5 Lists
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#q10
9 Visual formatting model
9.2.4 The 'display' property
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#display-prop
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