Posted by James Hutton on 05/03/07 17:37

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Scripsit James Hutton:
>
>> I've got a large number of names (373 in fact) currently in .txt ready
>> to cut and paste into a page.
>
> But why would you do that? Is such a long list really useful to visitors?

Well it's the roll of honour for ARA General Belgrano, so I'd like to
get all of them mentioned in one place.
>
>> Is there any way to place these into two
>> or three columns which flow automatically,
>
> And why would you do _that_? You can, though, create a tabular-looking
> presentation in a fairly simple way, but you need to use markup that
> makes each name an element. I guess that would most logically be <ul>
> markup, with each name as a <li> element. Then you would use CSS to make
> the <li> elements floated and of the same width (some number of em
> units, based on an estimate on the maximum length). They would then run
> rowwise.
>

Thanks for that, I'll have a look and play with that tonight.

James

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