Web Design Garage

Chapter 52. Building Lists

In HTML, there are two kinds of lists: ordered (or numbered) lists and unordered (or bulleted) lists. The markup for a list begins with either the ol or ul tag for ordered and unordered lists, respectively, followed by a series of li tags for each item in the list. See Figure 52.1 for examples of both types of lists.

Listing 52.1. View Source for Figure 52.1.

<table> <tr> <td> <!-- Ordered list begins here --> <ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> <li>Third item</li> <li>Fourth item</li> <li>Fifth item</li> </ol> <!-- Ordered list ends here --> </td> <td> <!-- Unordered list begins here --> <ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> <li>Third item</li> <li>Fourth item</li> <li>Fifth item</li> </ul> <!-- ...