Lists

There are two basic lists in HTML, the ordered or numbered list and the unordered or bulletted list. Each list has two tags associated with it, the list type tag and the list elements tag.

Ordered Lists
Use the OL tag (the ending /OL tag is required), and create a list of numbers starting with 1. The elements are created with the LI tag (the ending /LI tag is not required). For example:

1. Entry 1
2. Entry 2

The code:

<ol>
<li>Entry 1
<li>Entry 2
</ol>

Unordered Lists
Use the UL tag (the ending /UL tag is required), and create a list with bullets instead of numbers. The elements are also created with the LI tag. For example:

• Entry 1
• Entry 2

The code:

<ul>
<li>Entry 1
<li>Entry 2
</ul>

Definition Lists
Definition lists allow you to indent text underneath words in the fashion of a dictionary entry. There are three tags associated with the definition list, the list type tag <DL>, the definition term tag <DT>, and the definition tag <DD>. The ending tag is only required for the <DL> tag, but it is a good idea to include it for all of them. Here is how a definition list looks:

This is a definition term

And this is the definition

The code:

<dl>
<dt>This is a definition term</dt>
<dd>And this is the definition</dd>
</dl>p