HTML lists elements are used to display a list of items. You can display a to-do list, a grocery list, any kind of lists that contain textual information. Image lists are also possible, but that is something you will learn in CSS tutorial.
Lists are of two types
- Ordered Lists
- Unordered Lists
Ordered Lists
In this type of lists, the list items are ordered using numbers starting from 1 by default. But, you can specify other types of numeric symbols as well.
- Lower Alphabets
- Upper Alphabets
- Lower Roman
- Upper Roman
We shall see examples of each one of them. Create an HTML page called example-ordered-list.html and add the following code.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Ordered List Example</title> </head> <body> <h1>Ordered List Types</h1> <p> Default </p> <ol> <li>Orange</li> <li>Mango</li> <li>Banana</li> <li>Apple</li> </ol> <p>Lower Alphabets</p> <ol type="a"> <li>Red</li> <li>Blue</li> <li>Green</li> <li>Yellow</li> </ol> <p>Upper Alphabets</p> <ol type="A"> <li>Food</li> <li>House</li> <li>Water</li> <li>Electricity</li> <li>Transportation</li> </ol> <p>Lower Roman</p> <ol type="i"> <li>CEO</li> <li>Manager</li> <li>Supervisors</li> <li>Workers</li> </ol> <p>Upper Roman</p> <ol type="I"> <li>Football</li> <li>Cricket</li> <li>Shooting</li> <li>Athletics</li> </ol> </body> </html>
Output
Unordered List
Unordered list is a bulleted list with different shapes for the bullets. The different types of bullets are as follows.
- Default (bullet)
- Circle
- Disc
- Square
We shall see an example for each one these. Create a new HTML document called example-unordered-list.html.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Unordered List </title> </head> <body> <h1>Unorder List Types</h1> <p>Default bullets</p> <ul> <li>Pink</li> <li>Green</li> </ul> <p>Disc</p> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li>Pink</li> <li>Green</li> </ul> <p>Circle</p> <ul style="list-style-type:circle"> <li>Lion</li> <li>Tiger</li> </ul> <p>Square</p> <ul style="list-style-type:square"> <li>Table</li> <li>Chair</li> </ul> </body> </html>