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Posted by dorayme on 05/03/07 22:38
In article <h2i_h.157764$2P.27602@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi>,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> 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?
>
Surely there could be many good reasons. For example, a jailed
identity thief might want to list all his victims to boast about
his exploits or indeed, to make a public confession and apology.
Part of my business plan, for example, is to make websites for
convicts, taking on even the severest cases, ones that humans
cannot stomach. I also plan 'jilted-lover' and divorce websites
where infidelity is a big issue; the faithless partner sometimes
needing to list all his or her liaisons in an effort to either
humiliate or make some kind of confession-amend. On a more
cheerful note, wedding sites where the guests are listed.
> > 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.
Or, to remember something I once did, just float the <ul>s, pick
a reasonable number of names to put in each ul that would almost
for sure not to need vertical scrolling on most machines. Yes, I
know, not a perfect solution, but it can look not too bad and you
even get to keep an alphabetical ordering which a user will
quickly get to grasp. Here is an example of what I have in mind:
<http://members.optushome.com.au/droovies/test/someKindOfSubstitut
e.html>
You will need to adjust the em value for width as JK explains
above.
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dorayme
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