HTML and XHTML Step by Step

Key Points

• To create a numbered (ordered) list, use the <ol> tags. For a bulleted (unordered) list, use the <ul> tags.

• Within the <ol> or <ul> tags, use <li> tags for each list item. These tags are all two-sided. HTML does not require the closing </li>, but XHTML does.

• Ordered and unordered lists can be nested. Enclose the second-level <ul> or <ol> list within a <li></li> tags inside the main list.

• To use a different bullet character or numbering style, use the style="list-style-type: type" argument in the <ul> or <ol> opening tag.

• To create a definition list, use the <dl></dl> tags. Within the <dl> tags, enclose each term in <dt> tags, and enclose each definition in <dd> tags.

• You can display special characters on a Web page by using HTML character ...