A Complete Guide to Web Design

112 Chapter 7 – Formatting Text

Working with HTML Text

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<ol> NN: 2, 3, 4 - MSIE: 2, 3, 4, 5 - HTML 4 - WebTV - Opera3

<ol>...</ol>

Defines the beginning and end of an ordered list, which consists of list items<li>.

Attributes

compact

Displays the list as small as possible (not many browsers do anything with

this attribute).

start=number

Starts the numbering of the list atn, instead of 1.

type=1|A|a|I|i

Defines the numbering system for the list as follows:

Thetypeattribute has been deprecated by the HTML 4.0 Specification in

favor of style sheet controls for list item display.

<ul> NN: 2, 3, 4 - MSIE: 2, 3, 4, 5 - HTML 4 - WebTV - Opera3

<ul>...</ul>

Defines the beginning and end of an ordered list, which consists of list items<li>.

Attributes

compact

Displays the list block as small as possible. Not many browsers support this

attribute.

type=disc|circle|square

Defines the shape of the bullets used for each list item.

Working with HTML Text

Formatting web page text is unlike formatting text for print. In print, you have the

luxury of knowing that text will stay where you put it. Web text, on the other

hand, is more fluid. Many aspects of presentation are determined when the docu-

ment flows into each user’s browser window.

A good place to begin formatting a web document is to establish the general struc-

ture of the document by adding HTML tags that create paragraphs and heading

levels in the raw text.

Type Value Generated Style Sample Sequence

1 Arabic numerals (default) 1, 2, 3, 4...

A Uppercase letters A, B, C, D...

a Lowercase letters a, b, c, d...

I Uppercase Roman numerals I, II, III, IV...

i Lowercase Roman numerals i, ii, iii, iv...