A Question for HTML Coding Nerds + alt nerd question
Let's say we have a paragraph like this:

"You can help us in the following ways:
1. Help this way
2. Help that way
3. Help the other way"

Would you:
1. Place the list (<ol> tag) within the paragraph (<p> tag) as it is clearly part of the paragraph
2. Separate the list from the paragraph

I've coded for years but never been sure of the semantics here.

Alt Question: What subject/hobby are you nerdy about that would even make other nerds think "what a f*cking nerd!"?
(stubbledchin, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:09, 22 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Fuck off

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:10, Reply)

*points finger*
DOWN BOY!
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:12, Reply)

Hahahaha

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:13, Reply)

Alt: I go LARPing with Terry Pratchett and Craig Charles

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:10, Reply)

strangle yourself with your Simpsons tie

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:14, Reply)

It's a clip on.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:16, Reply)

stab your self with the clips

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:20, Reply)

Alt: I write gay Dr Who sex stories

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:22, Reply)

I say frack instead of fuck
and cut the corners off all my books.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:24, Reply)

Where can I buy these stories?
For a friend, like.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:32, Reply)

Here:
www.b3ta.com/users/profile.php?id=81069
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:34, Reply)

Thanks.
Very gay.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 12:06, Reply)

You wrote Torchwood?

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:39, Reply)

i
am

a

lawyer
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:22, Reply)

I don't think your question is all that important,
as long as you've made the rest of the webpage look like a 14-year-old girl's Myspace circa 2003. Lots of anmated gifs of unicorns, DEFINITELY an animated cursor and if it doesn't autoplay a pan-pipe version of something by Linkin Park you really ought to be fired on the spot.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:26, Reply)

This is correct.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:29, Reply)

Separate the list from the paragraph

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 3 Mar 2011, 11:40, Reply)

Why?

( G/PP &#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 12:37, Reply)

Why not?
There's no reason for putting the list within the paragraph, so the less nesting there is, the better, i.e.

some stuff

list item 1
list item 2
list item 3
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:00, Reply)

Oh look it's removed my tags. Feck.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:01, Reply)

Inside the P tag unless you want the CSS styling of the OL to be jumped outside the P.
I don't think I've ever used an OL before, I'm just used to it being unordered.
( G/PP &#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 12:36, Reply)

Nest your tags,
Put the ol tags inside the paragraph ones. But like Gonz said, no one uses ordered lists.
Edit: actually, yeah, separate the list from the paragraph.
Edit edit: I don't care anymore
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:25, Reply)