Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours

By Dick Oliver

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Put Your HTML Page Online Today
  • I. Your First Web Page
  • Hour 1. Understanding HTML and XML
  • Hour 2. Create a Web Page Right Now
  • Hour 3. Linking to Other Web Pages
  • Hour 4. Publishing Your HTML Pages
  • II. Web Page Text
  • Hour 5. Text Alignment and Lists
    • Text Alignment
    • The Three Types of HTML Lists
    • Lists Within Lists
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • Hour 6. Text Formatting and Font Control
  • Hour 7. Email Links and Links Within a Page
  • Hour 8. Creating HTML Forms
  • III. Web Page Graphics
  • Hour 9. Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics
  • Hour 10. Putting Graphics on a Web Page
  • Hour 11. Custom Backgrounds and Colors
  • Hour 12. Creating Animated Graphics
  • IV. Web Page Design
  • Hour 13. Page Design and Layout
  • Hour 14. Graphical Links and Imagemaps
  • Hour 15. Advanced Layout with Tables
  • Hour 16. Using Style Sheets
  • V. Dynamic Web Pages
  • Hour 17. Embedding Multimedia in Web Pages
  • Hour 18. Interactive Pages with Applets and ActiveX
  • Hour 19. Web Page Scripting for Non-Programmers
  • Hour 20. Setting Pages in Motion with Dynamic HTML
  • VI. Building a Web Site
  • Hour 21. Multipage Layout with Frames
  • Hour 22. Organizing and Managing a Web Site
  • Hour 23. Helping People Find Your Web Pages
  • Hour 24. Planning for the Future of HTML
  • VII. Appendixes
  • A. Readers' Most Frequently Asked Questions
  • B. HTML Learning Resources on the Internet
  • C. Complete HTML 4 Quick Reference
  • D. HTML Character Entities

The Three Types of HTML Lists

There are three basic types of HTML lists. All three are shown in Figure 5.3, and Figure 5.4 reveals the HTML to construct them:

Figure 5.3 The three types of HTML lists, as they appear in Netscape Navigator.

Figure 5.4 Use <ul> and <li> for unordered lists, <ol> and <li> for ordered lists, and <dl>, <dt>, and <dd> for definition lists.

• The bulleted list is called an unordered list. It opens with the <ul> tag and closes with </ul>. It looks just like an ordered list, except that bullets appear at each <li> tag instead of numbers.
• The numbered list at the top is called an ordered list. It begins with the <ol> tag and ends with a closing </ol> tag. Numbers and line breaks appear automatically at each <li> tag, and the entire list is indented.
• The list of terms and their meanings is called a definition list. It starts with the <dl> and ends with </dl>. The <dt> tag goes in front of each term to be defined, with a <dd> tag in front of each definition. Line breaks and indentations appear automatically.

Ordered lists are indented lists that have numbers or letters in front of each item. Unordered lists are indented lists with a special bullet symbol in front of each item.Definition lists are indented lists without any number or symbol in front of each item.

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