Chapter 8. How Do I Style Lists and Navigation Menus?

HTML provides tags for three different types of lists: unordered (<ul>), ordered (<ol>), and definition (<dl>). Unordered lists are normally displayed as a series of bullet points; ordered lists are numbered; and definition lists are presented as a word or phrase followed its definition, indented on the following line. Figure 8-1 shows examples of all three (the code is in lists_01.html in the download files for this chapter).

The three types of lists supported in HTML

Figure 8.1. The three types of lists supported in HTML

CSS regards the components of definition lists simply as block-level elements, so it has no special properties to deal ...

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