HOW TO BUILD A PROFESSIONAL WEB SITE     Rel. 1.1

how to improve ordered lists

In the <OL> Opening Tag use the Attributes TYPE and, if necessary, START. Let's see TYPE:

TYPE="1" is the default setting, which will render default numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.)
TYPE="A" will render the list with capital letters (A, B, C, etc.)
TYPE="a" will render the list with lower case letters (a, b, c, etc.)
TYPE="I" will render the list with Large Roman Numerals (I, II, III, etc.)
TYPE="i" will render the list with small roman numerals (i, ii, iii, etc.)

As far as the Attribute START is concerned
START="3" will make your ordered list count starting with 3 (C,c,III,iii) instead of 1 (A,a,I,i)

If you are a fanatic of these techniques, or, perhaps, you need them for your professional Web Pages, see these examples of ordered lists, and then their HTML codes.

Wow, are you happy ?
I realise that "forcing" a FONT Tag outside LI items obtains better results than what you have seen - you may do so, and Browsers will give you a lot of satisfaction, but an HTML Validator will tap you on your fingers - the choice is yours.....

I had so much fun making all these gadgets that I think I am going to feed you some more little tricks.

nested lists

How do you nest Lists ? Simply by placing a new List in the desired spot of the "container" List.

Example:

will get you this:

How are you feeling ?

In conclusion, Unordered Lists can be used for Hotlists, to display Menus, to organise and highlight points of a presentation, etc.

Ordered Lists can be used to organise Tables of Content, Indices, and sequential sections of text.