Re: Validations..Help!!

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Eovino <meovino(at)erols.com>

> ><ul>
> ><li>Item 1</li>
> ><li>   <------------DON'T NEED THIS ONE
> >    <ul>
> >    <li>Item 1 sub</li>
> >    </ul>
> ></li>  <------------DON'T NEED THIS ONE
> ><li>Item 2</li>
> ></ul>
>
>
> I didn't validate your code with W3C, and HomeSite's little validator
said
> it was ok, but it would seem to me that a nested list is not, in fact,
a
> list item.  As such, it shouldn't be surrounded with <li></li> tags.

Except that the spec for HTML 4 says that the only things that can go
inside <ul> or <ol> elements are <li> elements:

<!ELEMENT UL - - (LI)+                 -- unordered list -->
<!ELEMENT OL - - (LI)+                 -- ordered list -->

While <li> elements on the other hand, can contain many other elements:

<!ELEMENT LI - O (%flow;)*             -- list item -->
<!ENTITY % flow "%block; | %inline;">

So it's actually invalid to put a sublist inside a main list, except by
making it part of one of the main list items.

Regards,
Donna
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