Tony wrote:
Lists of the structure I cited are *common as mud*. Do
you think I am a complete fool and just made something up? Shall I
spell out a real-world example for you?
Calm down. I did not attack you or anything; there is no reason to be
offended like that. I never said you made anything up or anything; I
only said those invalidly-structured lists need to be fixed.
Consider a list of water catchment basins, which in
turn lists the major and minor streams belonging to each one.
* Basin 1
** major stream A
** Major stream B
*** minor stream C
*** minor stream D
*Basin 2
*** minor stream E
*** minor stream F
* Basin 3
** major stream G
*** minor stream H
This structure suggests that "minor stream C" and "minor stream D"
belong to the "Major stream B". Is that the case? I doubt it. You are
misusing the structure to emphasise difference between two categories
(minor and major) that are logically on the same level (belonging to
Basin 1). The correct structure would be either:
* Basin 1
** major stream A
** major stream B
** minor stream C
** minor stream D
* Basin 2
** minor stream E
** minor stream F
or, if you really *must* emphasise the grouping between "major" and
"minor" thingies:
* Basin 1
** Major streams:
*** A
*** B
** Minor streams:
*** C
*** D
* Basin 2
** Minor streams:
*** E
*** F
* Cockatoos
*** Cockatiel, Nymphicus hollandicus
** Black cockatoo group
*** Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus banksii
*** Glossy Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhyncus lathami
*** Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhyncus funereus
** White cockatoo group
*** Gang-gang Cockatoo, Callocephalon fimbriatum
*** Galah, Eolophus roseicapilla
*** Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua galerita
The correct structure would be:
* Cockatoos
** Black cockatoo group
*** Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus banksii
*** Glossy Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhyncus lathami
*** Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhyncus funereus
** White cockatoo group
*** Gang-gang Cockatoo, Callocephalon fimbriatum
*** Galah, Eolophus roseicapilla
*** Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua galerita
** Other
*** Cockatiel, Nymphicus hollandicus
Now, can we get back to the bug that I brought up and
stop spouting nonsense?
You did not bring up a bug. As I said, it's correct and expected
behaviour. I'm pretty sure it is invalid HTML to put a UL directly
inside a UL without an LI in between.
What you did bring up is that these kinds of lists are invalidly
structured as commonly as mud. That is alarming and really really needs
to be fixed.
Timwi