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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.

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>

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

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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