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HTML & CSS: Design and Build Websites
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HTML & CSS: Design and Build Websites

by Jon Duckett
November 2011
Beginner
513 pages
9h 33m
English
Wiley
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LISTS

  • Numbered lists
  • Bullet lists
  • Definition lists

There are lots of occasions when we need to use lists. HTML provides us with three different types:

  • Ordered lists are lists where each item in the list is numbered. For example, the list might be a set of steps for a recipe that must be performed in order, or a legal contract where each point needs to be identified by a section number.
  • Unordered lists are lists that begin with a bullet point (rather than characters that indicate order).
  • Definition lists are made up of a set of terms along with the definitions for each of those terms.

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ORDERED LISTS

<ol>

The ordered list is created with the <ol> element.

<li>

Each item in the list is placed between an opening <li> tag and a closing </li> tag. (The li stands for list item.)

Browsers indent lists by default.

Sometimes you may see a type attribute used with the <ol> element to specify the type of bullet point (circles, squares, diamonds and so on). It is better to use the CSS list-style-type property covered on pages 333-335.

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UNORDERED LISTS

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<ul>

The unordered list is created with ...

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