About.com HTML 101 - Fifth Assignment

(Being an Edit of Assignment #4)

Greetings! This is the fifth assignment from the About.com HTML 101 course. This lesson is about the three kinds of list that can be made with HTML.

The assignment is to make a definition list for you. I could write you out a bunch of definitions for HTML tags at this point & it would be quite apropos. But I decided to go with a different plan instead.

I like to play what I call “dictionary tag”, so I thought I'd share a few rounds with you. Going to my copy of Webster's Collegiate, I'm going to open a page at random & find a word to play with......... The word is: pit.

pit:

Middle English, from Old English pytt

akin to Old High German pfuzzi well

before 12th century

a hole, shaft, or cavity in the ground

Interestingly enough, these words seem close to the French word puit - a well.

Unfortunately I seem to have hit upon a pretty dead end word, but I think you get the idea of the list.

To compensate a little for the definition list not being very exciting, I'm going to add in some ordered and unordered lists. These aren't a part of the required homework, but the material was covered in the lesson.

• This is an unordered list. This item has a square bullet.
• I can also use a unfilled circle
• or a filled circle.
• This item is part of a sub-list inside the main list.
• You should see this sub-list indented a little farther
• and it should have a different bullet from the last item in the main list.
• If I add yet a third level, the bullet will change again!

An ordered list is a little more exciting. For example:

1. This is the first item of an ordered list, using standard Arabic numerals.
2. But I can switch to Roman numerals
3. or uppercase Roman numerals if I want to.
4. Similarly, I can use letters instead of numbers to order my list.
7. I can use uppercase letters as well, and even change the sequence of
8. the numbering.
9. If I don't specify anything fancy, the number reverts to the default style - Arabic.

This means I could insert a block of text here

10. And come back to my listing later.
11. Notice the numbering continues in a sequential fashion.
1. As with unordered lists, I can also nest ordered lists within one another.
2. I need to remember to specify the type, however, otherwise the item numbering will return to the default.
1. This sort of nesting would go over really well with lawyers!
2. Or technical writers.....
3. And this might be the end
4. of my list!

Watch for images in assignment six...

Again, I'm not supposed to know how to use links. Please use your back key. Thank you for being so patient! I'm sure we'll get to links pretty soon :)

Brightest blessings,
Willow
March 20, 2002

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