Sent by Mark Newhouse on 5 August 2002 18:06
>> what about an unordered list set to display inline?? is there
>> anything wrong with that?? a breadcrumb trail could be seen as a
>> list....
>
> sure, but every item in a breadcrumb is in a lower 'level' than the
> previous item...
>
> a bullet list shows thingies on one level, until you start nesting... so
> unless you had a new, nested bullet list for every item in the
> breadcrumb, i wouldn't use it...
>
> does that make sense?
It sure does, and with all the list related questions that appear on this,
er, list, I am currently working on a new article, part of which I'll
preview here. You can see the markup Adrian describes above when styled in a
couple different ways here:
http://realworldstyle.com/breadcrumb_lists.html
CSS is in the file. I used UL, but you could easily use OL as well.
Best,
-- Mark Newhouse
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