<DIR></DIR>

Contains an unordered list

Used to mark up a section of text to be displayed like a directory listing.

   <html>
        <head>
        <title>Directory listing of department</title>
        </head>
        <body>
           .
           .
==>>      <dir>
       <li>Richard Nixon</li>
        <li>Gerald Ford</li>
==>>      </dir>
          .
           .
        </body>
        </html>

This is one of the original tags used in HTML. The browser writers never really took the recommendation of the specification to display this as a multi-column directory. Instead they treat it the same as a ul (unordered list). So there you have it.

HTML 3.2 Final

Nothing more to add.

Netscape

Nothing special.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Nothing special.

Internationalization

Nothing special.

The Rusk Family . . . "the Legend Continues"

Michael T. Rusk
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