Combining Floating Lists with Other Web Page Elements
In the first three parts of this four-part series, we focused pretty closely on floating lists: getting them to float to the correct places, styling them so that they look more professional, and so forth. In this fourth and final part, however, we're going to make our floating lists play nicely with other web page elements. Keep reading to learn how.
Combining Floating Lists with Other Web Page Elements - Seeing the recently styled HTML lists (Page 4 of 4 )
As I expressed in the previous section, below I coded a final hands-on example that shows how to include the recently styled floating lists, in conjunction with a few trivial paragraphs, into the same web document.
Here’s the corresponding code sample:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<title>Basic example on using floating lists with paragraphs</title>
<style type="text/css">
body{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
background: #fff;
}
h1{
font: bold 18pt Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #000;
}
#listcontainer{
width: 1000px;
}
ul.leftlist{
float: left;
width: 350px;
position: relative;
padding: 10px 20px;
margin: 0;
list-style-position: inside;
list-style-type: disc;
background: #eee;
border: 1px solid #999;
}
ul.rightlist{
float: right;
width: 350px;
position: relative;
padding: 10px 20px;
margin: 0;
list-style-position: inside;
list-style-type: disc;
background: #eee;
border: 1px solid #999;
}
li{
font: normal 10pt Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #000;
margin: 5px 0 5px 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Basic example on using floating lists with paragraphs</h1>
<div id="container">
<p>This is the content of a simple paragraph. This is the content of a simple paragraph. This is the content of a simple paragraph. This is the content of a simple paragraph. This is the content of a simple paragraph. This is the content of a simple paragraph. This is the content of a simple paragraph. This is the content of a simple paragraph.</p>
<ul class="leftlist">
<li>This is the list item 1, floated to the left.</li>
<li>This is the list item 2, floated to the left.</li>
<li>This is the list item 3, floated to the left.</li>
<li>This is the list item 4, floated to the left.</li>
<li>This is the list item 5, floated to the left.</li>
</ul>
<ul class="rightlist">
<li>This is the list item 1, floated to the right.</li>
<li>This is the list item 2, floated to the right.</li>
<li>This is the list item 3, floated to the right.</li>
<li>This is the list item 4, floated to the right.</li>
<li>This is the list item 5, floated to the right.</li>
</ul>
<p>This is the content of a simple paragraph. This is the content of a simple paragraph. This is the content of a simple paragraph. This is the content of a simple paragraph. This is the content of a simple paragraph. This is the content of a simple paragraph. This is the content of a simple paragraph. This is the content of a simple paragraph.</p>
<ul class="leftlist">
<li>This is the list item 1, floated to the left.</li>
<li>This is the list item 2, floated to the left.</li>
<li>This is the list item 3, floated to the left.</li>
<li>This is the list item 4, floated to the left.</li>
<li>This is the list item 5, floated to the left.</li>
</ul>
<ul class="rightlist">
<li>This is the list item 1, floated to the right.</li>
<li>This is the list item 2, floated to the right.</li>
<li>This is the list item 3, floated to the right.</li>
<li>This is the list item 4, floated to the right.</li>
<li>This is the list item 5, floated to the right.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Since the above example speaks for itself, I’m not going to explain once again how it functions. Instead, I’d like to show you the output generated by the previous (X)HTML file, this time including the improved HTML lists. Take a look at the following screen shot, please:
With this final example, you’re armed with the required background to start building floating HTML lists with CSS. As you saw, the whole experience is fairly instructive and why not, also fun!
Final thoughts
Sad but true, we’ve come to the end of this series. Hopefully, all of the code samples included in the different articles will give you a clear idea of how to create, in a few simple steps, different floating HTML lists that will be displayed consistently by most modern browsers.
See you in the next web development tutorial!
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