Re: Ordered Lists

> "unlike the original" is not the case. The only thing I did w/ the
original
> document in question was simply highlight the </li>'s and delete them. I
did
> not add anything, nor restructure any original html.

But by doing this you corrected the error. However the error was not the
closing li tags,  which are perfectly legal, but the fact the nested ol
element was a direct child of another ol. removing the closing li tag made
the nested ol a child of the li element rather than the ol element!

Frank


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy Stanley, SSS WebWorks" <stanleysupport(at)prodigy.net>
To: "Frank Boumphrey" <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: Ordered Lists


> From: Frank Boumphrey <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>
> >I should also have mentioned that you version has the nested ol elements
a
> >children of li elements, unlike the original, so it should validate
unlike
> >the original.
>
> "unlike the original" is not the case. The only thing I did w/ the
original
> document in question was simply highlight the </li>'s and delete them. I
did
> not add anything, nor restructure any original html.
>
> --
> Cindy K. Stanley
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Cindy Stanley, SSS WebWorks" <stanleysupport(at)prodigy.net>
> >To: "Frank Boumphrey" <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
> >
> >> Cindy Stanley wrote:
> >> >> <li> is a singleton tag, requiring no closing. The end tag is
> optional.
> >> >> Remove all your </li> and the document will validate under your
> >> > >transitional doctype.
> >> >>but, it does (validate)... go figure.
> >>
> >> From: Frank Boumphrey <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>
> >> >then the validator you are using is wrong.
> >>
> >> hmmm ... I don't think so, at least not in my opinion :)
> >>
> >>  >Try using the W3C validator written incidently by an HWG member!
> >>
> >> "Incidently", that is the only validator *this HWG member* uses. I
would
> >> have never mentioned it validated, if I hadn't checked w/ the W3C
first.
> >>
> >> <http://www.ssswebworks.com/hwgoltest.htm>
> >>
> >> see for yourself
>

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