Another extensible form of an HTML link that does not use the <a> tag is one that causes the server to search a database for a document that contains a user-specified keyword or words. An HTML document that contains such a link is known… Continue reading >>

The <menu> tag displays a list of short choices to the reader, such as a menu of links to other documents. The browser may use a special (typically more compact) representation of items in a menu list compared with the general unordered list, or even use some sort of graphical pull-down menu… Continue reading >>

The <dir> Tag

The designers of HTML originally dedicated the <dir> tag for displaying lists of files. As such, the browser, if it treats <dir> and <ul> differently at all (most don’t), expects the various list elements to be quite short, possibly no longer than 20 characters or so. Some browsers… Continue reading >>

Except inside directories or menus, lists nested inside other lists are fine. Menu and directory lists can be embedded within other lists.

Indents for each nested list are cumulative, so take care not to nest lists too much; the list contents could quickly turn into a thin ribbon of… Continue reading >>

Just as you can change the bullet or numbering style for all of the items in an unordered or ordered list, you also can change the style for individual items within those lists. With ordered lists, you also can change the value of the item number. As you’ll see, the combinations of… Continue reading >>

It should be quite obvious to you by now that the <li> tag defines an item in a list. It’s the universal tag for HTML list items in ordered (<ol>) and unordered (<ul>) lists, as we discuss above, and for directories (<dir>) and menus (<menu>), which we discuss in detail later in this chapter.… Continue reading >>