Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 06/09/06 18:00

Ed Mulroy wrote:
>> Think about this, why are your links in a table at all? They are just a
>> list right?
>
> What is it that am I missing here?
>
> The concept is for a left columnar menu consisting of buttons. That menu is
> currently implemented as a table. In response to your comment I have tried
> doing it with a list but without success.
>
> An <li> isn't really a block element. I can't seem to specify margin 0 on
> top and left and margin 1 on the right and bottom with a specified color to
> get the button appearance that I wanted.

Oh contre!

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/dtd.html#block

<!ENTITY % block
"P | %heading; | %list; | %preformatted; | DL | DIV | NOSCRIPT |
BLOCKQUOTE | FORM | HR | TABLE | FIELDSET | ADDRESS">

And %list; are:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/dtd.html#list

The menu on my site is just a list, on my dog site also a list but
styled to be on the right:

http://www.littleworksstudio.com/Amberlithe/

And a horizontal menu on a site I am working on for a client mock up
page here:

http://www.littleworksstudio.com/temp/k2249/

Three very different menus all just lists. Other folks around here have
some even more creative examples...

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Take care,

Jonathan
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http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

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