Ordered Lists

An ordered list includes items which are numbered. The list itself is contained within <ol> and </ol> tags, and each item in the list is contained within <li> and </li> tags. The following code:

<ol>
  <li>This is item 1.</li>
  <li>This is item 2.</li>
</ol>

would produce the following output:

  1. This is item 1.
  2. This is item 2.

Ordered List Types

Your list doesn't have to use regular numbers - it could also use uppercase or lowercase letters, or uppercase or lowercase roman numerals. It also doesn't have to start at 1 (or a/A/i/I).

You can change the default values (numbers starting at 1) using the start and type attributes, but these aren't valid in strict HTML. A better way to do this is with CSS, which we'll cover in a later section.

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Unordered Lists