Rocky Kahn wrote:
The HTML 5 draft and preceding w3c
standards<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-ol>seem to specify that
<ul>/<ol> can not be direct child of <ul>/<ol>.
Specifically, the content model of <ol> and <ul> is "Zero or more
li<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#li>elements." This poses a
problem for designing a rich text editor (which
we're doing). Typically, when users add a list item onto an already created
list, it is encoded as a separate list rather than joining it with previous
list items. Consider a case where a user of a rich text editor such as
Google Mail or Google Documents starts with "apple" & "banana" at level 1
and "pear" at level 2 as shown below:
* apple
* pear
* banana
When the user indents "banana", it's coded as a separate <UL> as shown
below.
<ul>
<li>apple</li>
<ul>
<li>pear</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>banana</li>
</ul>
</ul>
This is a problem with the editor, not with HTML. To do nested lists,
the sub-lists need to be put within an <li> element of the parent list.
<ul>
<li>apple
<ul>
<li>pear</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>banana</li>
</ul>
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Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software
http://lachy.id.au/
http://www.opera.com/
