Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/10/06 02:03

Joe wrote:
> I was spouting off the other day, telling someone the "right" (alt.html
> approved) way of doing a navigation menu. The conversation went like
> this:
> ME: '... so your navigation menu is really a list of links and you
> should mark them up like that'
> THEM: '???'
> ME: 'Like in a book, you have the contents page at the front, directing
> you to where you want to go.'
> THEM: 'Oh, you mean the "Table of Contents" '
> ME: (cleverly seeing the trap and deftly avoiding it) 'Sort of, but on
> the web, it's more like a menu at a restaurant.'
> THEM: 'So how would you mark up a restaurant menu then?'
> ME: (thinks)'Bugger'
>
> Can someone supply me with a happy ending?
>

Menus is usually tabular data with two columns, the entrée and the
price, hence a *table*. Your navigation menu is more like a shopping
*list* with just a *list* of links to pages on your site.



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Take care,

Jonathan
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