<ol> to spread over two columns

[Timo Nentwig]

Hi!

Is the following possible?

********1.*one***3.*three
********2.*two***4.*four

And if so, how? If not, an offset attribute should be added to the next
version of XHTML:

<table>
<tr>
<td>
<ol>
<li>one</li>
<li>two</li>
</ol>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<ol offset="2">
<li>three</li>
<li>four</li>
</ol>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Regards
Timo

[Anne van Kesteren]

Timo Nentwig wrote:

Hi!

Is the following possible?

1. one 3. three
2. two 4. four
#three{
float:right;
}
#four{
float:right;
clear:right;
}

In CSS3 we get 'float:top;' I believe, which would make it easier.
[snip]

Tables shouldn't be used for layout. And I think we already have a START
attribute.

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[Chris Morris]

Anne van Kesteren <ma**@annevankesteren.nl> writes:

Timo Nentwig wrote:

Is the following possible?
1. one 3. three
2. two 4. four
#three{
float:right;
}
#four{
float:right;
clear:right;
}

Wouldn't that give
1
2
3
4

Tables shouldn't be used for layout. And I think we already have a
START attribute.

Yes. So
<div style="float: left;"><ol><li>...</li>...</ol></div>
<div><ol start="3"><li>...</li>...</ol></div>

1 2
3 4

is somewhat easier to do just by floating and clearing alternate
<li>s. Though it messes up the bullets in <ul> for IE, not tried it
with <ol>.

--
Chris

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Timo Nentwig <tc*@spamgourmet.com> wrote:

Is the following possible?

********1.*one***3.*three
********2.*two***4.*four

Yes, e.g. by making a two by two table or, better (for linearizability)
a two-cell table:

<table><tr>
<td><ol><li>...<li>...</ol></td>
<td><ol start="3"><li>...<li>...</ol></td>
</tr></table>

However, although this linearizes well in a browser that converts the
markup adequately into plain text or speech or Braille, it probably
confuses people who use a screen reader or a graphic browser visually.
We are used to reading Web pages rowwise.

Besides, you were probably looking for some simple automatic way.
Sorry, no way, not even in CSS (as currently defined and implemented).
In CSS you could somewhat clumsily (with classes) probably format a
<ol> list that way, but you would need to decide which items go into
the second column.

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Timo Nentwig <tc*@spamgourmet.com> said:

Hi!

hello

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