FEATURES

The List class and it's children have been structured to allow full nesting of either regular Python data types, (e.g., lists of lists of strings) or HTMLgen objects. For example, an OrderedList class can contain an instance of the List class, ImageBulletList class and DefinitionList class. Added in version 2.0.6 is the capability to render the list into multiple columns. Just set the columns attribute to a number greater than one and it will use that many columns. Also added is the ability to assign a background color through the use of the bgcolor attribute.

The Netscape Navigator extension type tag is supported as an attribute of the List and OrderedList classes and can be set as keyword parameters (although they have different meanings). In List instances you can set the type='disk' | 'circle' | 'square' to hardwire the style of bullet used. In OrderedList instances you can set type='A' | 'a' | 'I' | 'i' to alter the numbering from Arabic to respectively: capital letters, small letters, Roman numerals, small Roman numerals.

Normal list operations apply to all the classes in this family as the base class inherits from the UserList class provided in the core distribution.

The rendered HTML output should also exhibit indentation proportional to the level of list nesting.

Below is some example output. See the HTMLtest.py script for the source code which generated it.