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How do i convert an unordered list into a 2 column list?
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how do i turn the below code into a two column list? Its currently showing up as a single list. the problem i have is that the li class is defined as toclevel-1 so i cant define anything to individual entries of the list because the class is the same
how do i turn the below code into a two column list? Its currently showing up as a single list. the problem i have is that the li class is defined as toclevel-1 so i cant define anything to individual entries of the list because the class is the same
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To flow lists across multiple columns you are going to have to give the items different class names. Then you can use css to position the columns
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<li class="first_col"><a href="#12D_Model"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">12D Model</span></a></li>
<li class="second_col"><a href="#Arcady"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Arcady</span></a></li>
css code
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li
{
height: 1em;
}
.first_col
{
margin-left: 5em;
}
.second_col
{
margin-left: 15em;
}ASKER
Its mediawiki... i cant seem to find how it automatically appends the toclevel-1 to every entry in the list. this has to be unique as munterman says otherwise its not gonna work. any ideas?
Never used that product so I am out of my depth.
All I can suggest is going to their own support site and posting a question on the project forum
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk
All I can suggest is going to their own support site and posting a question on the project forum
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk
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thanks for the info guys. basically its the table of contents for a wiki page. you add headers and all the other stuff you want and mediawiki creates the TOC for you using those annoying tags. I wonder if it would be possible to create something within the content to be added which could make sense of it all.
And do you have access to the generating script?
If you need to solve it by only using CSS, im not familiar with anything that could make this possible without the need to alter the IDs / Classes on the elements.