Saturday 26 March 2016

HTML Lists

HTML Lists



HTML offers web authors three ways for specifying lists of information. All lists must contain one or more list elements. Lists may contain:

  • <ul> - An unordered list. This will list items using plain bullets.
  • <ol> - An ordered list. This will use different schemes of numbers to list your items.
  • <dl> - A definition list. This arranges your items in the same way as they are arranged in a dictionary.


HTML Unordered Lists
An unordered list is a collection of related items that have no special order or sequence. This list is created by using HTML <ul> tag. Each item in the list is marked with a bullet.

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Unordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result:

  • Beetroot
  • Ginger
  • Potato
  • Radish


The type Attribute
You can use type attribute for <ul> tag to specify the type of bullet you like. By default it is a disc. 
Following are the possible options:

<ul type="square">
<ul type="disc">
<ul type="circle">

Example

Following is an example where we used <ul type="square">

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Unordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
   <ul type="square">
   <li>Beetroot</li>
   <li>Ginger</li>
   <li>Potato</li>
   <li>Radish</li>
   </ul>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result:

  • Beetroot
  • Ginger
  • Potato
  • Radish


Example

Following is an example where we used <ul type="disc"> :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Unordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
   <ul type="disc">
   <li>Beetroot</li>
   <li>Ginger</li>
   <li>Potato</li>
   <li>Radish</li>
   </ul>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result:

  • Beetroot
  • Ginger
  • Potato
  • Radish
Example

Following is an example where we used <ul type="circle"> :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Unordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
   <ul type="circle">
   <li>Beetroot</li>
   <li>Ginger</li>
   <li>Potato</li>
   <li>Radish</li>
   </ul>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result:

  • Beetroot
  • Ginger
  • Potato
  • Radish


HTML Ordered Lists
If you are required to put your items in a numbered list instead of bulleted then HTML ordered list will be used. This list is created by using <ol> tag. The numbering starts at one and is incremented by one for each successive ordered list element tagged with <li>.

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol>
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result:

  • Beetroot
  • Ginger
  • Potato
  • Radish


The type Attribute
You can use type attribute for <ol> tag to specify the type of numbering you like. By default it is a number.
Following are the possible options:

<ol type="1"> - Default-Case Numerals.
<ol type="I"> - Upper-Case Numerals.
<ol type="i"> - Lower-Case Numerals.
<ol type="a"> - Lower-Case Letters.
<ol type="A"> - Upper-Case Letters.
Example

Following is an example where we used <ol type="1">

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
   <ol type="1">
   <li>Beetroot</li>
   <li>Ginger</li>
   <li>Potato</li>
   <li>Radish</li>
   </ol>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result:

  1. Beetroot
  2. Ginger
  3. Potato
  4. Radish
Example

Following is an example where we used <ol type="I">

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
   <ol type="I">
   <li>Beetroot</li>
   <li>Ginger</li>
   <li>Potato</li>
   <li>Radish</li>
   </ol>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result:

  1. Beetroot
  2. Ginger
  3. Potato
  4. Radish


Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type="i">

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
   <ol type="i">
   <li>Beetroot</li>
   <li>Ginger</li>
   <li>Potato</li>
   <li>Radish</li>
   </ol>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result:
Beetroot
Ginger
Potato
Radish


Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type="A">



<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
   <ol type="A">
   <li>Beetroot</li>
   <li>Ginger</li>
   <li>Potato</li>
   <li>Radish</li>
   </ol>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result:

A.Beetroot
B.Ginger
C.Potato
D.Radish


Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type="a">

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
   <ol type="a">
   <li>Beetroot</li>
   <li>Ginger</li>
   <li>Potato</li>
   <li>Radish</li>
   </ol>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result:
a.Beetroot
b.Ginger
c.Potato
d.Radish


The start Attribute
You can use start attribute for <ol> tag to specify the starting point of numbering you need. Following are the possible options:
<ol type="1" start="4">    - Numerals starts with 4.
<ol type="I" start="4">    - Numerals starts with IV.
<ol type="i" start="4">    - Numerals starts with iv.
<ol type="a" start="4">    - Letters starts with d.
<ol type="A" start="4">    - Letters starts with D.

Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type="i" start="4" >

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
   <ol type="i" start="4">
   <li>Beetroot</li>
   <li>Ginger</li>
   <li>Potato</li>
   <li>Radish</li>
   </ol>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result:
Beetroot
Ginger
Potato
Radish


HTML Definition Lists
HTML and XHTML support a list style which is called definition lists where entries are listed like in a dictionary or encyclopedia. The definition list is the ideal way to present a glossary, list of terms, or other name/value list.

Definition List makes use of following three tags.
<dl> - Defines the start of the list
<dt> - A term
<dd> - Term definition
</dl> - Defines the end of the list

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Definition List</title>
</head>
<body>
<dl>
<dt><b>HTML</b></dt>
<dd>This stands for Hyper Text Markup Language</dd>
<dt><b>HTTP</b></dt>
<dd>This stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol</dd>
</dl>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result:
HTML
This stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP
This stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

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