HTML:lists

[Bob Duncan]

At 11:38 AM 3/2/98, Bill Frost wrote:

>Librarian has image problem.

No comment.

>I remember reading somewhere of a way (Netscape extension?) to substitute
>an image for the disc, circle, or square preceding items <LI>listed</LI>
>in an <UL>unordered</UL> list, but I found nothing in both paper and
>online HTML guides. 

It's possible with Style Sheets, using the "list-style-image" property.
Unfortunately, this property has limited current support.  (Doesn't work in
Netscape yet; it's supposed to work in IE4). 

To try it, pop the following into an HTML doc header: 
<STYLE><!-- UL { list-style-image: url(http://somewhere.edu/image.gif) }
--></STYLE>
(Not sure if URL to image *has* to be absolute or not?)

Bob Duncan


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  Robert E. Duncan
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  Lafayette College
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