Lesson 10: Unordered Lists

There are three different types of HTML lists: unordered lists, ordered lists, and definition lists.

An unordered list has bullets to mark the start of each list item. Bullets are therefore called item markers. You can specify the type of bullet using the CSS list-style-type property. There are four possible choices: none, disc, circle, and square. An ordered list has numbers to mark the start of each item. The numbers can be in many forms, such as decimal, roman, greek letters, latin letters, and so on. Definition lists are not very common and we will skip them.

This page shows how to create unordered lists.

Unordered List with Disc Bullets

These are actual quotes taken from school kids.

• H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water.
• When you breath, you inspire. When you do not breath, you expire.
• Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas.

Unordered List with Circle Bullets

More quotes taken from school kids:

• Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire.
• The skeleton is what is left after the insides have been taken out and the outsides have been taken off. The purpose of the skeleton is something to hitch meat to.
• The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. all water tends towards the moon, because there is no water in the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in the fight.

Unordered List with Square Bullets

And more ...

• The body consists of three parts- the branium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The branium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowls, of which there are five - a, e, i, o, and u.
• Blood flows down one leg and up the other.
• Water is composed of two gins, oxygin and hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water.