[whatwg] Nested list

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
>
> Hi, I just realized that in HTML4.01 spec, DTD doesn't seem to allow
> nested OL or UL without LI.  See
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/lists.html#h-10.2  In fact, the
> nested list example is marked deprecated.  But in practice, all major
> user agents produce nested list when execCommand("Indent"...) is
> executed.  Is there any chance we can standardize nested lists, and in
> particular, what UA produce?

I don't think nested lists really make much sense -- a list is a list of 
items, and a nested list is just one of the items.


> For example, all major browsers (Firefox, IE, & WebKit) produce
> slightly different versions of HTML when indenting "item 2" in the
> following HTML (assume it's content-editable):
> <ol>
> <ol id="u1"><li id="i1">item 1</li></ol>
> <li id="i2">item 2</li>
> <ol id="u3"><li id="i3">item 3</li></ol>
> </ol>

Well that's just very wrong on so many levels. I don't think we want to 
condone it.

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