Comments on: Reverse-ordered HTML lists http://rossshannon.com/2009/02/10/reverse-ordered-html-lists/ Researchin' the day away... Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:49:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dan http://rossshannon.com/2009/02/10/reverse-ordered-html-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-44136 Dan Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:54:25 +0000 http://rossshannon.com/blog/?p=136#comment-44136 Works nice. Thanks! Works nice. Thanks!

]]> By: Tsekub http://rossshannon.com/2009/02/10/reverse-ordered-html-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-44109 Tsekub Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:42:29 +0000 http://rossshannon.com/blog/?p=136#comment-44109 Thanks! works great! Thanks! works great!

]]> By: R. Biswas http://rossshannon.com/2009/02/10/reverse-ordered-html-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-44097 R. Biswas Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:07:52 +0000 http://rossshannon.com/blog/?p=136#comment-44097 Working fine thanks a lot Working fine thanks a lot

]]> By: Minh Ha-Duong http://rossshannon.com/2009/02/10/reverse-ordered-html-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-44091 Minh Ha-Duong Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:16:35 +0000 http://rossshannon.com/blog/?p=136#comment-44091 Using this on my list of publications, works well. Thanks ! Using this on my list of publications, works well. Thanks !

]]> By: Tim Wright http://rossshannon.com/2009/02/10/reverse-ordered-html-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-43811 Tim Wright Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:11:38 +0000 http://rossshannon.com/blog/?p=136#comment-43811 Very helpful, thanks! Very helpful, thanks!

]]> By: Don Perlis http://rossshannon.com/2009/02/10/reverse-ordered-html-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-43391 Don Perlis Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:16:11 +0000 http://rossshannon.com/blog/?p=136#comment-43391 Darn! The text box *formatted*my previous reply, thereby ruining my carefully designed examples. (Fixed. —Ed.) But my claims are correct, so you'll have to imagine the item number indentations as I describe them. On the regular non-reversed list, just enough space is allowed on the left margin so that even the long-digit numbers have room, without crowding up against the item text,while shorter numbers are a bit further indented, so that the item number is always a fixed distance from the item text that is to its right. But in the reverse mode, this spacing is all messed up. Darn! The text box *formatted*my previous reply, thereby ruining my carefully designed examples. (Fixed. —Ed.) But my claims are correct, so you’ll have to imagine the item number indentations as I describe them. On the regular non-reversed list, just enough space is allowed on the left margin so that even the long-digit numbers have room, without crowding up against the item text,while shorter numbers are a bit further indented, so that the item number is always a fixed distance from the item text that is to its right.

But in the reverse mode, this spacing is all messed up.

]]> By: Don Perlis http://rossshannon.com/2009/02/10/reverse-ordered-html-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-43390 Don Perlis Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:28:45 +0000 http://rossshannon.com/blog/?p=136#comment-43390 I tried this and it worked very well, except that for LONG lists the offset of the list numbers was a bit odd. The low-end items were 'way out to the left margin, and the high-end ones crowded in too close (literally as shown, with the 3-digit numbers starting *further* to the right than the 1-digit numbers): <pre> 189.item 188.item ⋮ 3. item 2. item 1. item </pre> With regular (non-reversed) lists, this does not happen, and instead nicely indents the list numbers appropriately to the length (# of digits) in each list number, as follows: <pre> 1. item 2. item 3. item ⋮ 94. item 95. item ⋮ 188. item 189. item </pre> I tried this and it worked very well, except that for LONG lists the offset of the list numbers was a bit odd. The low-end items were ‘way out to the left margin, and the high-end ones crowded in too close (literally as shown, with the 3-digit numbers starting *further* to the right than the 1-digit numbers):

  189.item
  188.item
  ⋮
3.     item
2.     item
1.     item

With regular (non-reversed) lists, this does not happen, and instead nicely indents the list numbers appropriately to the length (# of digits) in each list number, as follows:

   1.  item
   2.  item
   3.  item
⋮
 94.  item
 95.  item
⋮
188. item
189. item
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