A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 197

March 30, 2005

In this double issue, Eric Shepherd streamlines the trusty old CSS dropdown, and Kim Siever teaches an unordered list to sit, roll over, and stop stealing cheese off the kitchen counter.

Hybrid CSS Dropdowns

Yup. It’s yet another CSS dropdown article — but one that resolves many problems associated with common dropdown methods and degrades beautifully. Hybrid CSS dropdowns allow access to all pages, keep the user aware of where she is within the site, and are clean and light to boot. It’s a tasty little vitamin pill, so quit sighing and try it.

Spruced-Up Site Maps

The clean-n-simple site map gets a nice haircut and and a shoe-shine as Kim Siever shows us how to hook custom bullet styles to troublesome nested lists.

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Editor’s Choice

originally ran: July 15, 2001

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