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HTML - List Items In Table Cells - Okay To Do?
Hi there,
I was wondering if it's good practice to put <li> tags inside table cells. Normally, I would just put the list items in their own div container without the table, but for specific design reasons, I need to separate the list items in their own table data cells. This is how I'm currently doing it: Code: <div id="container"> <ul> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><h2>List Header</h2></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="29"><li><a href="itemone.html">Item One</a></li></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="29"><li><a href="itemtwo.html">Item Two</a></li></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="29"><li><a href="itemthree.html">Item Three</a></li></td> </tr> <tr> </table> </ul> </div> Notice that the H2 header isn't actually a list item but is still within the <ul> tags. Is any of this confusing or incorrect for google indexing? Similar TutorialsI see the use of the <ul> and <li> tags when creating things like menus and in the case of digg and gamegrep at the least, comments. I can see a possible use with comments for indentatiing replies to other comments. The question still stands for things like menus though, does it have to do with search engine crawlers and how they parse the page? Any insight by anyone who knows anything about this would be nice. Thanks Hi Folks, I'm a newbi and just learning. Does anyone know if there is a tag or an object that would allow me to enter the same short list of items on several pages and be able to change the list on all the pages by changing it on one page? In other words if I change the list items on say a master page, it changes the list on all other pages where the same items are listed? Thanks for your help. Joel Hi, I know this is being an extreme perfectionist. But, if you look at http://www.tendervendors.com/dev/hr_systems.html, at the selected link on the navigation bar (HR Systems), you'll see that there are 2 lines either side of the HR Systems (selected) link. This is fine, however because the bottom border is on the other links and not the selected one, and the two side borders are on the selected link, the don't line up. I'm aware that i could specify the right border on the 1st link and the left border on the 3rd link, but i was trying to make it simple, so someone without alot of understanding and program it after i've done. So, i then thought, well i could overlap the links, 2px to the left, so set li { position:relative }, and then li {left:-2px}. but it doesn't overlap the li's, it overlaps the entire ul over the page (content div) border. Any ideas as to why this is? Thanks, Matthew Millar Hi every one I have a quick question. I'm building and interface this is make of unordered list items. Those list items are contained in a span so that interface can have separate look for the other links on the page. But when I validate my page in Dreamweaver I get some page errors that. Here is the error: The tag:"span" is not allowed within: "ul" It is only allowed within: a, abbr, acronym, address, b, bdo, big, button, caption, cite, code, dd, del, dfn, div, dt, em, fieldset, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6. . ..[XHTML 1.0 strict] Now here is the code in question: HTML Code: <ul id="nav">
<span class="left_links">
<li class="nav_items_00"><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
<li class="nav_items_00"><a href="services.html">Services</a></li>
<li class="nav_items_00"><a href="gallery.html">Gallery</a></li>
<li class="nav_items_00"><a href="events.html">Events</a></li>
<li class="nav_items_00"><a href="http://hsgsphoto.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Blog</a></li>
<li class="nav_items_00"><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
</span>
The page that you can see this code in action is located at: http://www.hsgsphoto.com I guess my question is what would be the best practice in this situation. I need the a way to tell this group of links to act different then links in other parts of the page but the error I'm getting in validation is that list items (li) tags are not to be used within a span. Thank you so much for any feed back and help John Hey, I've got this problem involving a list in IE. I've basically made a LI within another LI like so:- Code: <ul class="mainNav">
<li><a href="/index.php?frc=1" class="first">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="/GamePortal.php">Games</a></li>
<li class="headlink"><a href="/edit_profile.php">My Profile</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="/edit_profile.php">Game Profile</a></li>
<li><a href="/link.php">Community Profile</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="/promotions.php">Promotions</a></li>
</ul>
This generates a sort of list underneith a list to be used as a dropdown menu. I've assigned it some CSS to do this Code: .mainNav li.headlink ul {
list-style: none;
display: none;
float: none;
margin: 0px;
position: absolute;
top: 35px;
z-index: 100;
min-width: 72px;
text-align: center;
padding: 5px;
}
What happens is that when using FF the content displays perfect (no suprises there) but when I use IE for the same page, it moves the drop down list to the end of the item above on it's x axis (the y is fine). I've tried all sorts of different things; I used relative which worked but then expanded the LI item above it shifting everything along in the line. So it has to be absolute positioned to stop that from happening. I've messed about with every single margin I can think of to no avail. Any Ideas. For some reason i can't resize the weight on the cells i highlighted in black on the code below Code: <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td><table width="700" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="388" height="92" background="top11.jpg"> </td>
<td width="312" height="92" background="top12.jpg"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="700" height="353" colspan="3" background="main.jpg"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="269" height="149"><a href="ImagensFinaisSite/picsleft/2.jpg" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('LeftPic','','ImagensFinaisSite/picsleft/2_on.jpg',1)" onClick="return popImage(this.href,'Site author');"><img src="ImagensFinaisSite/picsleft/2_off.jpg" alt="Clicar na imagem para ampliar" name="LeftPic" width="269" height="149" border="0" id="LeftPic"></a></td>
<td width="157" height="149"><a href="ImagensFinaisSite/picscenter/1.jpg" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('CenterPic','','ImagensFinaisSite/picscenter/1_on.jpg',1)" onClick="return popImage(this.href,'Site author');"><img src="ImagensFinaisSite/picscenter/1_off.jpg" alt="Clicar na imagem para ampliar" name="CenterPic" width="157" height="149" border="0" id="CenterPic"></a></td>
<td width="274" height="149"><a href="ImagensFinaisSite/picsright/2.jpg" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('RightPic','','ImagensFinaisSite/picsright/2_on.jpg',1)" onClick="return popImage(this.href,'Site author');"><img src="ImagensFinaisSite/picsright/2_off.jpg" alt="Clicar na imagem para ampliar" name="RightPic" width="274" height="149" border="0" id="RightPic"></a></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
</table>
These are the cells i can't resize: <td width="388" height="92" background="top11.jpg"> </td> <td width="312" height="92" background="top12.jpg"> </td> I've tried messing around with colspan but i just can't get it working. Any idea whats wrong? Hi, here's my code, and things are working as they should. My only problem is I can't seem to move my drop-down list from the cell it is in to the cell left one. (see photo) Can anyone see from my code whats going wrong? Site url: http://www.walthamforest-fc.co.uk/st...layer.php?id=3 Code: <TABLE
WIDTH="520"
ALIGN=center
BORDER=0
CELLSPACING=0
CELLPADDING=0>
<TR VALIGN=middle ALIGN=center>
<td><img src="http://www.walthamforest-fc.co.uk/stats/images/playerbar.jpg"></TD>
</TR>
<tr VALIGN=left ALIGN=center>
<td><img src="
<?php echo
$image_url = "images/" . $playerdata['id'] . "_1.jpg";
?>"/><img src="
<?php echo
$image_url = "images/" . $playerdata['id'] . ".jpg";
?>"/>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td background="/stats/images/playernameback.jpg" width="308" height="46"> <font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt"><font color="#018609">
<?php echo "$playerdata[firstname]" ?> <?php echo "$playerdata[lastname]" ?>
</TD>
<td>
<td background="/stats/images/playernameback.jpg" width="202" height="46"><?php
//
//Haetaan kaikki pelaajat dropdownia varten
//
$sql = '
SELECT P.PlayerID AS id,
P.PlayerLastName AS lastname,
P.PlayerFirstName AS firstname,
P.PlayerPublish AS publish
FROM tplss_seasons S
LEFT OUTER JOIN tplss_players P ON P.PlayerID = S.SeasonPlayerID
';
if($defaultseasonid == 0)
{
$sql .= "
WHERE P.PlayerID != '' AND
P.PlayerPublish = '1'
GROUP BY id
ORDER BY firstname, lastname";
}
else
{
$sql .= " AND S.SeasonID = '$defaultseasonid'
WHERE P.PlayerID != '' AND
P.PlayerPublish = '1'
GROUP BY id
ORDER BY firstname, lastname";
}
$query = mysql_query("$sql", $connection)
or die(mysql_error());
echo"<select name=\"playerid\">";
while($data = mysql_fetch_array($query))
{
if($data['id'] == $id)
{
echo"<option value=\"$data[id]\" SELECTED>$data[firstname] $data[lastname]</option>\n";
}
else
{
echo"<option value=\"$data[id]\">$data[firstname] $data[lastname]</option>\n";
}
}
echo"</select> <input type=\"submit\" name=\"change_player\" value=\"$txt_change\">";
mysql_free_result($query);
$ttl = (($_SESSION['getAdditional'] + 1) % 2) ? "Show": "Hide";
?>
</td>
</tr>
Hi, I am developing a calendar application in ASP. The calendar is displayed in a table where each cell represents a date and has a + and - in it. The + represents people working on that date and the - those who are off. I need to add 'title' information to table cells so that when the user moves the cursor over the + or - the respective information to be shown. I tried to do this as follows: <td><title = "worklist">+</title><title="freelist">-</td> This doesn't work, nothing appears when the cursor hovers over either the + or -. I can combine the worklist and freelist and display it in one go with: <td title="listall">+=</title> but this is unsatisfactory. Too much data is displayed and the result looks messy. I dont want to double the amount of cells by having + and - in seperate cells either. Is there a trick that allows seperate <title> info in the same cell. Help would be appreciated, regards, Guy Hello, I made a goofy little website at adamvonwillis.com and if you look at the home page you will see a gap between the first and second rows. The rows need to be touching. If anyone could look at the code and help me out I would be very greatful! Thank you! Hi: I have a long table (613 rows) with two columns (Containing Names, Addresses, Lot Numbers, and Phone Numbers, etc. I would like to format the cells of each column so that certtain fields (e.g., Phone Number is in a certain position in each cell). For example, I'd like this phone number to be right-aligned in the second row of each cell, etc Is there a standard, or easy way to do this ?? Thank for any help offered. -Mel Smith Somebody suggested I do this using list items instead of left-floating DIVs, so I did. But I have no other experience of working with lists and no matter what I do, I can't get the list items to sit right next to each other. There's always a gap between them that I can't get rid of. Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<HEAD>
<STYLE>
ul { list-style-type:none; }
li { display:inline; }
#headings { font-family:Courier New; line-height:25px; font-size:16px; font-weight:bold; text-align:center; margin-top:10px; }
#headings a { background-color:#000; padding:7px; padding-top:4px; padding-bottom:2px; border:1px solid #f00; }
#headings A:link { color:#ccc; }
#headings A:visited { color:#ccc; }
#headings A:hover { background-color:#aaa; color:#000; }
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV id="headings">
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="p1.html">News</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="p2.html" onMouseover=showmenu(event,linkset[0],'110px') onMouseout=delayhidemenu()>Produkt</A></LI>
<LIl><A HREF="p3.html">Media</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="p4.html">Downloads</A></LI>
<BR>
<LI><A HREF="p5.html" onMouseover=showmenu(event,linkset[1],'166px') onMouseout=delayhidemenu()>Col Dee</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="p6.html">Contact</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="p7.html">Guestbook</A></LI>
</UL>
</DIV>
</BODY>
</HTML>
As you can see the "panels" are split into two rows using a simple linebreak. By the way, I've managed to get zero top and bottom margins by controlling the line-height attribute. Can anyone help with this? Thanks for reading, Seymour. Hello, I have a website that I'm having trouble with. The problem only shows up in Firefox. For some reason, a few cells in my tables are showing gaps between the borders and the JPG image within it. None of my tables or cells have any spacing or padding above 0. The cell heights aren't set to anything. Here's a screen shot for an example of what I mean: The gaps I'm referring to are where the red arrows are pointing. Now here's the same image with the borders of the tables within the problem region set to 1: Can anyone explain this? Is there are minimum cell height in Firefox or something? You can view my website at http://www.rrexecutivesuites.com (remember to view it in Firefox). Can anyone tell me why? Not sure what is going on here... Here is a link to the development site where you can see the problem I am having (I did not design it, but I am in charge of changing to html). http://www.vismarkgroup.com/dev/Kyrie/about.html Thanks!! I am making a simple table with multiple links in each of the cells. The only problem is when I try to put 2 links in the same cell it turns out like this: Link Link, side by side. Is there a way to make them be a list (up and down) like this: Link Link Thanks in advance. Hello everyone! I'm so glad an informative forum like this exists! I'm in Web-115 and was looking for a little help on an assignment as i'm not sure how to do this. Below are the things i'm struggling with and below it is the code. Any help would be greatly appreciated! 9. "Assign the cell in the top-left corner of the table the id name topLeft. Assign the cell in the top-right corner the id name topRight." Not sure where to insert this into my morning.htm file 13. "add the following styles for the table cells" (not sure where to insert "topLeft, topRight, etc or what to use as id to be indentified in CSS" HTML Code: <table class="programs" summary="Lists the morning programs aired by KPAF from 5:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (central time)"> <caption>All times central</caption> <thead> <colgroup> <col class="timeColumn" /> <col class="daysColumn" span="6" /> <col class="lastColumn" /> </colgroup> <tr> <th>Time</th> <th>Monday</th> <th>Tuesday</th> <th>Wednesday</th> <th>Thursday</th> <th>Friday</th> <th>Saturday</th> <th>Sunday</th> </tr> </thead> Thanks so much! Justin Moose Hello! This is my first post on the forum, seems like a nice place here. I'm pretty much brand new to HTML and CSS as well. I'm learning fast but I have run into a problem that I cannot solve... and maybe it is not even solve-able with HTML. I want to create a table that has a different amount of cells on each row, but I want those rows to have the same width. I understand it is hard to understand from my poor description. So check out the image below: This is how I want to table to look, how is it done? Thanks! Does anyone know the CSS or HTML (or combo) script to be able to have a table row collapse when there is no text in one cell, but there is text in the next cell? I have a 2-column table with titles in the left column and want the right column to be populated by a user. If the user doesn't populate the right cell(s) or row, I'd like that row -including the constant/visible text that is in the left col- to be hidden and that row to collapse or move up... Hello, Is it possible to create drop down menus from table cells (i.e., moving mouse over a cell activates a drop down menu)? If so, could you possibly point me to an example to see how it is done? Thanks! Hi, I spent five and a half hours attempting to resolve this problem, but now I'm hoping that someone might be able to help me. If you visit http://www.justforyouwebsite.com/, you'll see that the menu tables on the left and right sidebars are meant to have shadows. The shadows are created by using 3x3 tables, with the right and bottom sides of the tables containing repeating background images. Unfortunately, however, the size of the table cells on the right isn't correct. The top-right cell should be 7 pixels high, with the middle right cell filling the space between the top right and bottom right cells. As it is now, the top right cell and the middle right cell appear to be split evenly, and no matter what style or HTML changes I make, there is no way to get the shadow to repeat all the way up the right side of the table. Does anyone have any ideas? The Smarty template code is below in case it might help someone, although I don't see how this could be a scripting problem. Code: <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="2">
<table cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="VertMenuBorder">
<tr>
<td class="VertMenuTitle">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tr>
<td>{$link_begin}<img src="{$ImagesDir}/{if $dingbats ne ''}{$dingbats}{else}spacer.gif{/if}" class="VertMenuTitleIcon" alt="{$menu_title|escape}" />{$link_end}</td>
<td width="100%">{if $link_href}<a href="{$link_href}">{/if}<font class="VertMenuTitle">{$menu_title}</font>{if $link_href}</a>{/if}</td>
</tr></table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="VertMenuBox">
<table cellpadding="{$cellpadding|default:"5"}" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr><td>{$menu_content}<br /></td></tr>
</table>
</td></tr>
</table>
</td>
<td class="TabTopRight" height="7px"><div class="DivTabTopRight" height="7px"> </div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="TabRight" height="100%"><div class="DivTabRight"> </div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="TabBottomLeft"><div class="DivTabBottomLeft"> </div></td>
<td class="TabBottom"><div class="DivTabBottom"> </div></td>
<td class="TabBottomRight"><div class="DivTabBottomRight"> </div></td>
</tr>
</table>
Thanks, -Steve Hi, I need to write text in different colors in the cells of a table... for now i use <FONT> but since it is deprecated how can i do this without FONT? HTML Code: <TABLE>
<TR>
<TD><FONT COLOR=BLUE>BLUE</FONT></TD>
<TD><FONT COLOR=RED>RED</FONT></TD>
<TR>
<TD><FONT COLOR=BLACK>BLACK</FONT></TD>
<TD><FONT COLOR=YELLOW>YELLOW</FONT></TD>
</TABLE>
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