[2009-11-08 22:47] Martin Swift <mar...@swift.is> > On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 03:18:23PM +0100, markus schnalke wrote: > > Why do people use lists, which take a line for each item? It's easy to > > do it without lists and thus having the items of one level all in a > > line. > > First of all, people use lists because they are a sensible way to > structure a /list/ of items.
Agreed > Secondly, there is nothing inherent about > the list that demands that they be displayed one item per line -- > that's just a sensible default and this is one of the reasons why we > have CSS. No. List items are block elements (like <h1>); they are meant to expand to the whole line and break text above and beyond. CSS has only the ability to transform block elements into non-block elements and the other way round. meillo
