List in HTML

List are a way of representing things in a chronological manner.Sometime we use it to show the hierarchy also.

List can be of two types : Ordered List , UnOrdered Listfirst published! (required)

Ordered List in HTML

Cricket Playing nations

1. India
2. Pakistan
3. England
4. South Africa

For above list, we have to use the below code

<ol>
<li>India</li>
<li>Pakistan</li>
<li>England</li>
<li>South Africa</li>
</ol>

Another style for ordered list

1. India
2. Pakistan
3. England
4. South Africa

For above list, we have to use the below code

<ol type=”I”>
<li>India</li>
<li>Pakistan</li>
<li>England</li>
<li>South Africa</li>
</ol>

<ol type=”1|a|A|i|I”> type attribute values mean

1     Decimal numbers (1, 2, 3, 4),default value for ordered list

a    Alphabetically ordered list, lowercase (a, b, c, d)
A   Alphabetically ordered list, uppercase (A, B, C, D)
i    Roman numbers, lowercase (i, ii, iii, iv)
I  Roman numbers, uppercase (I, II, III, IV)

to start the numbering from a specific number use
<ol start=”n”>

the below code has been generated using
<ol start=”8″>

8. India
9. Pakistan
10. England
11. South Africa

To reverse the order use <ol  reversed> tag