I am writing out bullets in HTML for a web page. Can I make these bullet points go from left to right instead of up to down? Is that even correct use of grammar and text? If not, can I use another sort of text to replace the vertical bullets with a horizontal way of displaying the text?
Thanks
You can do whatever you want, it’s your webpage. Add a float:left to the <li> tags through your stylesheet and they’ll be horizontal instead of vertical.
You are entitled to do whatever you want with your design – web page, brochure, magazine, what have you. You Are Not Entitled To Whatever Response From Users You Want.
This is where many projects go off the rails: the user and potential customer gets the final vote.
Violating user expectations for no good reason has consequences. And your own personal whim is not a good excuse, sorry. This is the first lesson of Flash. It generally goes unlearned.
can I use another sort of text to replace the vertical bullets with a horizontal way of displaying the text?
Unanswerable, because there is no context to answer. Is this a navigation? Why does this need to be horizontal – because it makes the PhotoShopped layout “work” in some misguided sense of the word?
You could do it with the ellipsis were we talking about something within a paragraph. (There is markup code for a proper ellipsis)
It has to work for users. Sorry to say, the boss can detest it. You can be horrified by the design, but if the users love it your votes don’t count. By and large, the vote is denominated in money, not opinion.
Finally, this is more than likely very testable. Do two versions, see which one whoever you’re designing whatever for responds. (Once again, a response is not an opinion. Response is intended action.)
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