Which content for <li>

[Bernd Schlingenkamp]

Hi!

A stupid question (I think I have to read the spec more detailed): what kind
of content is allowed for <li>-Elements? Is this valid html:

<ul>
<li><div>somecontent</div></li>
<li><div>somecontent</div></li>
<li><div>somecontent</div></li>
</ul>

TIA

Bernd

[Harlan Messinger]

"Bernd Schlingenkamp" <be*****************@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi!

A stupid question (I think I have to read the spec more detailed): what kind
of content is allowed for <li>-Elements? Is this valid html:

<ul>
<li><div>somecontent</div></li>
<li><div>somecontent</div></li>
<li><div>somecontent</div></li>
</ul>

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

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[Mark Tranchant]

Bernd Schlingenkamp wrote:

Hi!

A stupid question (I think I have to read the spec more detailed): what kind
of content is allowed for <li>-Elements?
You do need to read the spec, where it's very clear:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/lists.html#h-10.2

states %flow as legal content for <li>, and the DTD:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/dtd.html#flow

defines %flow as any block or inline element.

Is this valid html:

<ul>
<li><div>somecontent</div></li>
<li><div>somecontent</div></li>
<li><div>somecontent</div></li>
</ul>

Yes.

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[Jukka K. Korpela]

"Bernd Schlingenkamp" <be*****************@hotmail.com> wrote:

Is this valid html:

<ul>
<li><div>somecontent</div></li>
<li><div>somecontent</div></li>
<li><div>somecontent</div></li>
</ul>

As others have said, it is valid. But I wonder why you ask. Why would you
like to use the <div> markup? It has no visual effect by default - inside
<li> elements, since each list item starts on a new line anyway - and it
has no semantic meaning. But it could be used for various tricks - e.g.,
if you wish to make list bullets red without affecting text color, you
could make the <ul> element's text color red but the color of <div>
elements inside <li> elements black (or whatever). And there's nothing
syntactically wrong with such tricks.

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[Bernd Schlingenkamp]

Okay, thank you all for your advice.

As others have said, it is valid. But I wonder why you ask. Why would you
like to use the <div> markup? It has no visual effect by default - inside
<li> elements, since each list item starts on a new line anyway - and it
has no semantic meaning. But it could be used for various tricks - e.g.,
if you wish to make list bullets red without affecting text color, you
could make the <ul> element's text color red but the color of <div>
elements inside <li> elements black (or whatever). And there's nothing
syntactically wrong with such tricks.

The idea behind this is to make a special kind of menu. Lists can be
arranged inline, horizontally. So, with divs you could arrange a container
just along the topic-entries.

Bernd