You know what I love? Lists.
Have you ever made a to-do or shopping list?
Have you ever read a list on a webpage like,
"Top 10 Most Ridiculous Dog Faces"?
I bet you have, because the world is full of lists.
HTML gives us a few tags to make lists,
and we're going to practice them by making
a list of reasons why rabbits make great pets.
Now, to begin a bulleted list,
we must start with the < ul > tag.
What does < ul > stand for?
Well I bet you can guess what the "l" stands for, list.
The "u", is a little trickier, it stands for unordered,
and it means that the browser won't number the list items.
It will just add little bullets.
To see what I mean let's add the first item,
"They're Furry".
See the little circle on the side?
That's a bullet.
Now what do you suppose < li > stands for?
The "l" is list, and the "i" is item, list item.
Every time we want to add a new item,
we need to add a new < li > under the < ul > .
Every < ul > should have at least one < li > under it,
because a list with no items is pretty boring.
Okay, let's add some more so,
"Great listeners" and,
"Eat all your leftover carrots"
Okay this should be a pretty convincing list.
I don't know who wouldn't want a rabbit after reading this.
Now, I didn't number this list
because I don't think that one reason
is more important than the other,
but there are a lot of times when we do want numbered lists.
Like, if we wanted to make a
"Top three most famous rabbits" list.
So, to start our numbered list,
we're going to use an < ol > instead of a < ul > .
Have you figured out what < ol > stands for?
Here's a hint, just chop the first
two letters off of what < ul > stood for.
That's right, it stands for "ordered list".
And it tells a browser to automatically
number each new item.
We still use < li > for adding new items
inside of the list however.
So we'll put, "Bugs Bunny",
we've got "Thumper",
and of course, can't forget the "Easter Bunny".
The neat thing about numbered lists is
that the browser takes care of the numbering for us.
So if we rearrange items, delete, or add new ones,
it always updates the numbers correctly.
Like if all of you tell me that you
don't know who "Thumper" is.
Then, first, I'll tell you all that you
should really go watch "Bambi".
But then I will begrudgingly move
"Thumper" down to the bottom.
And now, poor "Thumper" is number three.
So now you have everything you need to make lists.
Go forth and list everything.