Character entity as bullet in <ul>?

[floofy7]

Can you use a character entity (for example: &gt as the bullet in an unordered list? Thanks!

 

[cLFlaVA]

best way would probably be to create an image with that character, and then apply that as the background of the list item.

you could potentially use the :before selector (CSS) to declare text that comes before an object, but this is not supported in IE.



*cLFlaVA
----------------------------
[tt]mr. pibb + red vines = crazy delicious![/tt]

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.coryarthus.com/[/url]

 

[floofy7]

So other than using an image, it can't be done?

 

[cLFlaVA]

http://alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/

*cLFlaVA
----------------------------
[tt]mr. pibb + red vines = crazy delicious![/tt]

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.coryarthus.com/[/url]

 

[floofy7]

Yeah, I found that page, but it doesn't show me the CSS. If you look at the code, the character entity has been entered before each item.

 

[cLFlaVA]

it shows you a ton of CSS. as I said earlier, the :before selector does not work in IE, which is why they entered the character code before each item - so it's visible in all browsers for their demonstration.



*cLFlaVA
----------------------------
[tt]mr. pibb + red vines = crazy delicious![/tt]

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.coryarthus.com/[/url]