[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4969: Lists within lists

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#4969: Lists within lists
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 Reporter:  pishmishy                      |        Owner:  pishmishy
     Type:  enhancement                    |       Status:  assigned 
 Priority:  normal                         |    Milestone:  2.4      
Component:  General                        |      Version:  2.3      
 Severity:  normal                         |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  accessibility has-patch lists  |  
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Comment (by Otto42):

 Replying to [ticket:4969 pishmishy]:
 > The sidebar template typically uses lists of lists to prettily display
 lists of pages, categories and bookmarks. Lists of pages, categories and
 bookmarks are forced to be items of lists themselves as the functions
 wp_list_pages(),wp_list_categories() and wp_list_bookmarks() wrap the
 output of functions in <li>..</li> tags by default.
 >
 > Lists are intended to indicate something about the structure of the
 document where as these forced <li> tags appear to be intended to provide
 pretty indentation. Nested-lists can also provide confusion for non-visual
 readers.

 The purpose of these lists is not for indentation, it's for document
 structure.

 Generally speaking, the entire sidebar can be considered one big list of
 items. Each "item" is a whole sidebar entry. This is a perfectly
 acceptable structure, you have a big list of entries. The fact that each
 entry is large vertically does not make the unordered list structure
 incorrect. And indentation is not a factor here either, generally
 speaking, as the entire sidebar is styled to a specific position.

 Now, the individual elements of that sidebar might contain list
 information themselves, such as a list of pages or list of bookmarks or
 what have you. But the content of that sidebar list item is irrelevant, it
 can be anything desired.

 > wp_list_bookmarks() provides the ability to override this with
 category_before and category_after options.

 wp_list_bookmarks is a special case, as it generates *multiple* list items
 intended for inclusion into a sidebar. By default, each category becomes a
 separate sidebar entry, instead of the entire unit being one sidebar entry
 with multiple subentries.

 Because of this multiple nature, it needs these extra before and after
 options because not all themes use lists for the entire sidebar. I've seen
 sidebars that use nested divs, for example. These themes would have a div
 around each sidebar section, and so the wp_list_bookmarks would need to
 know those div elements in order to wrap each one in a div instead of a
 list.

 >wp_list_pages() and wp_list_categories() should offer similar options.

 wp_list_pages and wp_list_categories do not actually generate multiple
 sidebar, and so they do not need these similar options.


 Recommend closing this as wontfix.

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