HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference, 4th Edition

Name

dir — HTML 4.01

Synopsis

<dir> . . . </dir>

Creates a directory list consisting of list items (li). Directory lists were originally designed to display lists of files with short names, but they have been deprecated with the recommendation that unordered lists (ul) be used instead.

Notes

Deprecated in HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.0. Not in HTML5.

Start/End Tags

Required/Required

Attributes

Core, Internationalization, Events, HTML5 Global Attributes

compact (compact="compact" in XHTML)

Deprecated. Not in HTML5. Makes the list as small as possible. Few browsers support the compact attribute.

Example

<dir>
  <li>index.html</li>
  <li>about.html</li>
  <li>news.html</li>
</dir>