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Contains an ordered list of items

Element used to format and display an ordered (numbered) list of items.

   <html>
        <head>
        <title>An Ordered List</title>
        </head>
        <body>
          .
          .
==>>      <ol>
         <li>Apples</li>
          <li>Bananas</li>
          <li>Oranges</li>
==>>      </ol>
         .
          .
        </body>
        </html>

HTML 3.2 Final

You are allowed to specify a number of attributes for the list:

type: This attribute lets you control the type of numbering scheme to apply to your list. The types are:
=1 - regular numbers (Arabic) like 1, 2, 3 ...
=a - lowercase alpha characters such as a, b, c ...
=A - uppercase alpha characters such as A, B, C ...
=i - lowercase Roman numerals like i, ii, iii ...
=I - uppercase Roman numerals like I, II, III ...
start: The starting number for the list. Must be an integer. If you don't use this attribute then the list starts with 1. You can also use the value attribute of the li element to set a number. The number sequence is unique to the list. You can't continue a sequence from another list automatically, you have to specify a start or value to do that.
compact: A "suggestion" to the browser that it ought to reduce the spacing on the list. I haven't played with this yet but I'm tempted to give it a try just to see what difference it makes.

Netscape

Nothing special.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Nothing special.

Internationalization

Nothing special.

The Rusk Family . . . "the Legend Continues"

Michael T. Rusk
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