Hi,
I agree with your very thoughtful reply, I meant <ul> as the the list type.
C On Monday, June 28, 2004, at 10:22 PM, Lea de Groot wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:09:36 -0700, ckimedia wrote:When styling a group of links one can simply change the display of the a:link and a:visited state to display block, making a simply line of links into a list. What is the advantage of using a <ol> for links as opposed to the aforementioned, if any?
Well, firstly, the various accessability tools don't like a group of links with no further tags separating them - they require more than white space between them. Remember, one of the points of accessability is that they might not see your pretty css.
From there, we start to debate just which tags should be around those links. In many cases, the tags semantically form a list, thus li tags are put around the links, with the appropriate list type applied (ordered / unordered) and css applied. (Sidenote: an unordered list is far more commonly used than an ordered list because the order normally isn't really significant) Voila :)
HIH
Lea
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