10 Lists
Contents
- Introduction to lists
- Unordered lists (UL), ordered lists (OL), and list items (LI)
- Definition lists: the DL, DT, and DD elements
- Visual rendering of lists
- The DIR and MENU elements
Lists
Contents
- Unordered (UL) and ordered (OL) lists
- Lists formatted by visual user agents
- Definition lists: the DL, DT, and DD elements
- The DIR and MENU elements
<ol>: The Ordered List element
The <ol> HTML element represents an ordered list of items — typically rendered as a numbered list.
Flow content, and if the <ol> element's children include at least one <li> element, palpable content. |
Zero or more <li>, <script> and <template> elements. |
None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory. |
Any element that accepts flow content. |
list |
directory, group, listbox, menu, menubar, none, presentation, radiogroup, tablist, toolbar, tree |
HTMLOListElement |
<li>: The List Item element
The <li> HTML element is used to represent an item in a list. It must be contained in a parent element: an ordered list (<ol>), an unordered list (<ul>), or a menu (<menu>). In menus and unordered lists, list items are usually displayed using bullet points. In ordered lists, they are usually displayed with an ascending counter on the left, such as a number or letter.
None. |
Flow content. |
The end tag can be omitted if the list item is immediately followed by another <li> element, or if there is no more content in its parent element. |
An <ul>, <ol>, or <menu> element. Though not a conforming usage, the obsolete <dir> can also be a parent. |
listitem when child of an ol, ul or menu |
menuitem, menuitemcheckbox, menuitemradio, option, none, presentation, radio, separator, tab, treeitem |
HTMLLIElement |
HTML Lists
In this tutorial you will learn how to create different types of lists in HTML.
HTML Lists
In this article, we will know the HTML List, along with understanding its types, various ways to implement them, through the example.
A list is a record of short pieces of related information or used to display the data or any information in web pages in the ordered or unordered form. For instance, to purchase the items, we need to prepare a list that can either be ordered or unordered list which helps us to organize the data & easy to find the item. Please refer to the HTML <li> type Attribute article for the various types of attributes that can be used with the ordered & unordered list.
Example: The below example illustrates the use of the unordered & ordered list in HTML.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>GeeksforGeeks</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Welcome To GeeksforGeeks Learning</h2>
<h5>List of available courses</h5>
<ul>
<li>Data Structures & Algorithm</li>
<li>Web Technology</li>
<li>Aptitude & Logical Reasoning</li>
<li>Programming Languages</li>
</ul>
<h5>Data Structures topics</h5>
<ol>
<li>Array</li>
<li>Linked List</li>
<li>Stacks</li>
<li>Queues</li>
<li>Trees</li>
<li>Graphs</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
HTML List
Supported Tags: These tags are used in HTML listing.
- HTML <ul> Tag
- HTML <ol> Tag
- HTML <dl> Tag
The HTML Unordered List: An unordered list starts with the “ul” tag. Each list item starts with the “li” tag. The list items are marked with bullets i.e small black circles by default.
Syntax:
<ul> list of items </ul>Attribute: This tag contains two attributes which are listed below:
- compact: It will render the list smaller.
- type: It specifies which kind of marker is used in the list.
Note: The <ul> attributes are not supported by HTML5.
Example: This example describes the unordered list.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>Grocery list</h2>
<ul>
<li>Bread</li>
<li>Eggs</li>
<li>Milk</li>
<li>Coffee</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Unordered List
HTML unordered list has various list item markers:
Example 1: The Disc can be used to set the list item marker to a bullet i.e default.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML ul tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>GeeksforGeeks</h2>
<h2>Unordered List with Disc Bullets</h2>
<p>GeeksforGeeks courses List:</p>
<ul style="list-style-type:disc">
<li>Geeks</li>
<li>Sudo</li>
<li>Gfg</li>
<li>Gate</li>
<li>Placement</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Unordered List with disc item maker
Example 2: The Circle can be used toset the list item marker to a circle.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>GeeksforGeeks</h2>
<h2>Unordered List with Circle Bullets</h2>
<p>GeeksforGeeks courses List:</p>
<ul style="list-style-type: circle">
<li>Geeks</li>
<li>Sudo</li>
<li>Gfg</li>
<li>Gate</li>
<li>Placement</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Unordered List with circle item maker
Example 3: TheSquare can be used to set the list item marker to a square.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>GeeksforGeeks</h2>
<h2>Unordered List with Square Bullets</h2>
<p>GeeksforGeeks courses List:</p>
<ul style="list-style-type: square">
<li>Geeks</li>
<li>Sudo</li>
<li>Gfg</li>
<li>Gate</li>
<li>Placement</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Unordered List with square item maker
Example 4: It’s none that can be used to set the list item marker with no mark.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>GeeksforGeeks</h2>
<h2>Unordered List with No Bullets</h2>
<p>GeeksforGeeks courses List:</p>
<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li>Geeks</li>
<li>Sudo</li>
<li>Gfg</li>
<li>Gate</li>
<li>Placement</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Unordered List with none item maker
Example: Nested Unordered List, It is used to nest the list items ie., list inside another list.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>GeeksforGeeks</h2>
<h2>Nested Unordered List</h2>
<p>GeeksforGeeks courses List:</p>
<ul>
<li>DSA</li>
<ul>
<li>Array</li>
<li>Linked List</li>
<li>stack</li>
<li>Queue</li>
</ul>
<li>Web Technologies</li>
<ul>
<li>HTML</li>
<li>CSS</li>
<li>JavaScript</li>
</ul>
<li>Aptitude</li>
<li>Gate</li>
<li>Placement</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Nested Unordered List
HTML Ordered List: An ordered list starts with the “ol” tag. Each list item starts with the “li” tag. The list items are marked with numbers by default.
Syntax:
<ol> <li>Item1</li> <li>Item2</li> <li>Item3</li> </ol>Attributes:
- compact: It defines the list should be compacted (compact attribute is not supported HTML5. Use CSS instead.).
- reversed: It defines that the order will be descending.
- start: It defines that from which number or alphabet the order will start.
- type: It defines which type(1, A, a, I, and i) of the order you want in your list numeric, alphabetic, or roman numbers.
Example:This example illustrates the use of the reverse attribute, control list counting & type attribute.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML ol tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2 style="color: green">GeeksforGeeks</h2>
<h3>HTML ol tag</h3>
<p>reversed attribute</p>
<ol reversed>
<li>HTML</li>
<li>CSS</li>
<li>JS</li>
</ol>
<p>start attribute</p>
<ol start="5">
<li>HTML</li>
<li>CSS</li>
<li>JS</li>
</ol>
<p>type attribute</p>
<ol type="i">
<li>HTML</li>
<li>CSS</li>
<li>JS</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Ordered List with different list style
HTML ordered list has various list item markers: The type attribute of the <ol> tag defines the type of the list item marker.
Example 1: The list items will be numbered with numbers i.e default.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>Ordered List with Numbers</h2>
<ol type="1">
<li>Bread</li>
<li>Eggs</li>
<li>Milk</li>
<li>Coffee</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Ordered List withnumeric item maker
Example 2: Type=”A”, this list of items will be numbered with uppercase letters.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>Ordered List with Letters</h2>
<ol type="A">
<li>Bread</li>
<li>Eggs</li>
<li>Milk</li>
<li>Coffee</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Ordered List withcapital alphabetic item maker
Example 3: Type=”a”, this list items will be numbered with lowercase letters.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>Ordered List with Lowercase Letters</h2>
<ol type="a">
<li>Bread</li>
<li>Eggs</li>
<li>Milk</li>
<li>Coffee</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Ordered List withsmall alphabetic item maker
Example 4: Type=”I”, this list items will be numbered with uppercase roman numbers.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>Ordered List with Roman Numbers</h2>
<ol type="I">
<li>Bread</li>
<li>Eggs</li>
<li>Milk</li>
<li>Coffee</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Ordered List withuppercase roman numbers
Example 5: Type=”i”, this list items will be numbered with lowercase roman numbers.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>Ordered List with Lowercase Roman Numbers</h2>
<ol type="i">
<li>Bread</li>
<li>Eggs</li>
<li>Milk</li>
<li>Coffee</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Ordered List withlowercase roman numbers
Example 6: Nested ordered list, a nested ordered list is a list that has a list inside another list.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>GeeksforGeeks</h2>
<h2>Nested Ordered List</h2>
<ol>
<li>Coffee</li>
<li> Tea
<ol>
<li>Black tea</li>
<li>Green tea</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Milk</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Nested Ordered List
HTML Description List: A description list is a list of terms, with a description of each term.The <dl> tag defines the description list, the <dt> tag defines the term name, and the <dd> tag describes each term.Please refer to the How to add description list of an element using HTML? article for further details.
Syntax:
<dl> Contents... </dl>Example: This example describes the HTML Description List.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>A Description List</h2>
<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>- 500 gms</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>- 1 ltr Tetra Pack</dd>
</dl>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Description List
Supported Browser:
- Google Chrome 94.0 & above
- Microsoft Edge 93.0
- Firefox 92.0 & above
- Opera 78.0
- Safari 14.1
- IE 11.0
HTML | <li> type Attribute
The <li> type attribute in HTML is used to specify the type of a list items. This attribute also defines the style of the bullet point of the list items.
Syntax:
<li type="1|a|A|i|I|disc|circle|square">Attribute Values:
For ordered list items:
- 1: It is the default value. It is used to specify the numerical ordered list.
- a: It arranged the list items in lower case letters.
- A: It arrange the list items in the form of upper case.
- i: It arrange the list items in the roman numbers in the form of lower case letters.
- I: It arranged the list in roman numerals in the form of uppercase letters.
For unordered list items:
- disc: It is the default value. It creates a filled circle.
- circle: It creates an unfilled circle.
- square: It creates an filled square.
Note: The <li> type attribute is not supported by HTML 5.
Example 1:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
HTML li type Attribute
</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2 style = "color: green;">
GeeksforGeeks
</h2>
<h2>
HTML list item type Attribute
</h2>
<p>Sorting Algorithms</p>
<ol>
<li type="a">Merge sort</li>
<li>Quick sort</li>
<li type="I">Insertion sort</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Example 2:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
HTML li type Attribute
</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2 style = "color: green;">
GeeksforGeeks
</h2>
<h2>
HTML li type Attribute
</h2>
<p>Sorting Algorithms</p>
<ul>
<li>Merge sort</li>
<li>Quick sort</li>
<li type="square">Insertion sort</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Supported Browsers: The browser supported by HTML <li> type attribute are listed below:
- Google Chrome
- Internet Explorer
- Firefox
- Safari
- Opera
HTML Lists
HTML lists allow web developers to group a set of related items in lists.
Example
An unordered HTML list:
- Item
- Item
- Item
- Item
An ordered HTML list:
- First item
- Second item
- Third item
- Fourth item