HTML: Lists
Lists are one way of presenting content on a page. With their help it is easy to group small related fragments, such as a shopping list:
— Milk
— Bread
— Water
You can make such a list with three paragraphs, but then, at first glance, it will seem that these are three different phrases not united by a common meaning.
Milk
Bread
Water
Lists are used to properly relate this information. To create them in HTML, several tags are used, nested within each other:
<ul>or<ol>to define the type of list<li>to create a list item
The general layout is as follows:
<List_type>
<list_item>Text</list_item>
</list_item>
Marked list
The <ul> tag is used to create a bulleted list.
Bulleted lists are used when the information does not require a specific sequence. For example, the grocery list from the example above. It is not so important what will be bought first: milk or bread, it is important to buy all the products.
<ul>
<li>Milk</li>
<li>Bread</li>
<li>Water</li>
</ul>
- Milk
- Bread
- Water
Numbered list
Numbered lists are used to group sequential information, an important feature of which is the presence of a serial number of the item.
Such lists are useful if they indicate the sequence of actions to be taken. A numbered list is created with the <ol> tag, inside which also lie elements in the <li> tags.
To-do list for the day
- Buy food
- Go to Alex
- Cook dinner
in HTML markup looks like this:
<ol>
<li>Buy food</li>
<li>Go to Alex</li>
<li>Cook dinner</li>
</ol>
Instructions
Create a numbered list of 5 items
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