Lists - Standards & Browsers

[mothra]

How can I find out which browsers support a given element? For example I find myself wondering if generation 4 browsers (mainly concerned with IE & NN here) will display <ul> and <li> elements properly.

Along the same lines, how would I find out if an element is valid per WC3?

Thank you.

[CrzySdrs]

Here is a listing of given HTML elements in browsers
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_reference.asp

and here's some CSS:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp

both of these tell you what browsers support them. Hope this helps.

[brothercake]

You talking about CSS-transformed lists used as navigation bars, like A List Apart?

V4 browsers won't support that; there is a way of making look a bit better in netscape 4 http://www.evolt.org/article/Successful_inline_lists_in_Netscape_4/17/60192/index.html

But frankly I wouldn't bother; you don't need to provide rich content for 4-version browsers anymore.

[mothra]

Thanks that helps... alot to learn about all the standards and x-browser stuff.

M.

[oracleguy]

If you learning about web standards and stuff, this sticky (http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23475) in the general web building forum might be of some use. All the sites in it use valid xhtml and css-based layouts.

[meow]

If you mean 'ordinary' ULs they are fundamental to HTML. No worry about browser support there.

Browser support in general:
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagindex/a.htm
Stadard - why not use the specs?
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html

[BrainJar]

The W3C validator at http://validator.w3.org/ can spot invalid tags on a given page. You may find it quicker than manually scanning the source and looking up tag names. Plus it will catch error on attributes or improperly nested tags.

[giz]

I like http://validator.w3.org/detailed.html instead.

You can select the DOCTYPE and Character set in selector boxes if these items are missing from the page.

I always tick the boxes for "show source" and "document outline" and "verbose output" too.