FIGURE 4.3 AN HTML PARAGRAPH, INPUT

INPUT

<p> the dragon fell to the ground, releasing an anguished cry and seethe in pain. The thrust of enigern’s sword proved fatal as the dragon reached its last breath. Now enigern was free to release lad aelfleada for imprisonment in the dragon’s lair. </p>

OUTPUT

FIGURE 4.3 AN HTML PARAGRAPH.

LISTS, LISTS, AND MORE LISTS.

In addition to headings and paragraphs, probably the most common HTML element you’ll use is the list. After this section, you’ll not only know how to create a list in HTML, but all show to crate several different types of list-a list for every occasion!

HTML 4.01 defines these three types of lists.

·         Numbered or ordered lists, which are typically labeled with numbers

·         Bulled or unordered lists, which are typically labeled with bullets or some other symbol.

·         Glossary lists, in which each item in the list has a term and a definition for that term, arranged so that the term is somehow highlighted or drawn out from the text.

 NOTE

You’ll also notice a couple of deprecated list types in the HTML 4.01 specification: menu lists (<menu>) and directory lists (<dir>). These two list types aren’t frequently used and support for them varies in browsers. Instead, use the <u1> (or bulleted list) tags in place of these deprecated list types.

A deprecated tag or attributed is one that has been marked for removal from future specifications and products. It may still be supported for historical reasons, but when you created new pages you should not use deprecated elements or attributes, because future support for them is not guaranteed.

NOTE

Browsers generally continue to support deprecated elements for reasons of backward compatibility. There’s still a need to learn about the deprecated elements because you might run into them in existing pages.