How to construct XHTML-compliant nested list?

[deko]

How do I construct an XHTML-compliant nested unordered list?

This displays correctly (both FF and IE):

<ul>
<li>list item</li>
<li>list item</li>
<li>list item</li>
<ul>
<li>nested list item</li>
<li>nested list item</li>
<li>nested list item</li>
</ul>
</ul>

But fails validation with this error:

document type does not allow element "ul" here; assuming missing "li" start-tag.

How can I nest a list if I can't put a <ulwithin a <ul??

Thanks in advance.

[Geoff Muldoon]

de**@nospam.com says...

How do I construct an XHTML-compliant nested unordered list?

This displays correctly (both FF and IE):

<ul>
<li>list item</li>
<li>list item</li>
<li>list item</li>
<ul>
<li>nested list item</li>
<li>nested list item</li>
<li>nested list item</li>
</ul>
</ul>

But fails validation with this error:

document type does not allow element "ul" here; assuming missing "li" start-tag.

Logically the nested list is a child of the third list item and should be
wholly contained within it.

<ul>
<li>list item</li>
<li>list item</li>
<li>list item
<ul>
<li>nested list item</li>
<li>nested list item</li>
<li>nested list item</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

If it's not logically a child of that element, don't nest it. Use
blockquote if you simply want it indented further.

Geoff M

[deko]

<ul>

<li>list item</li>
<li>list item</li>
<li>list item
<ul>
<li>nested list item</li>
<li>nested list item</li>
<li>nested list item</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

That did the trick. Thanks!

[Steve Pugh]

Geoff Muldoon wrote:

Use blockquote if you simply want it indented further.

You give good advice about proper nesting of lists and then suggest
using blockquote for indenting. You're joking, right?

Steve

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Geoff Muldoon wrote:

If it's not logically a child of that element, don't nest it. Use
blockquote if you simply want it indented further.

<blockquoteis for marking up .. well .. quotes. Not as an indenting
tool.

I have several quotes on this page, for example.
http://www.freezeblock.com/homeowner.php

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck.

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

deko wrote:

How do I construct an XHTML-compliant nested unordered list?

I just answered a similar post for Luigi (a character actor who plays
roles occasionally in alt.html). He wanted to know about ordered lists,
but the markup is the same, except for the "o" or the "u".

http://k75s.home.att.net/tests.html

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck.

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Steve Pugh <st**********@gmail.comscripsit:

Geoff Muldoon wrote:

>Use blockquote if you simply want it indented further.

You give good advice about proper nesting of lists and then suggest
using blockquote for indenting. You're joking, right?

Wasn't that obvious?

I guess we need <blockjokemarkup, the meaning of which is random
indentation and a background consisting of smileys. It should have an
optional trolling="trolling" attribute.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/