HTML Ordered

HTML Ordered List

If the ranking of items is desired, we employ ordered lists. To place individual list items, you use the <LI> tag as

<OL>
<LI>Item One
<LI>Item Two
<LI>Item Three
<LI>Item Four
</OL>

The code above is displayed by the browser as

1. Item One
2. Item Two
3. Item Three
4. Item Four

You would have noticed that the list items show some indentation on the left and some space is inserted before and after the list. This makes the reading of the list easy and helps it to stand out from the other text. An ending tag for a list item </LI> is not required.
Numbers are the default bullets in ordered lists but you can change this using the TYPE attribute of <OL> tag. This attribute takes one of the five values:

• TYPE="a": Lowercase alphabet
• TYPE="A": Uppercase Alphabet
• TYPE="i": Lowercase Roman Numerals
• TYPE="I": Uppercase Roman Numerals
• TYPE="1": Regular number (default)

Thus,

<OL TYPE="A">
<LI>Item One
<LI>Item Two
<LI>Item Three
</OL>

is displayed as

1. Item One
2. Item Two
3. Item Three

Another attribute is COMPACT (without any value) but is generally ignored by the browsers.