When order is important in a listyou should use ordered lists. If you're talking about your 10 favorite songs of all time or the 10 worst shows ever - ordered lists help you out.

The < OL> Tag

      And the brand new tag is the < OL> tag, which stands for, you guessed it: Ordered list. Again the way we open up a ordered list is very similar to the unordered list.

      Each list is made up of items. We place the list items in between the < OL> tags. Each list item has an opening tag: < LI>, the text of this list item that will be shown, and its closing tag: </LI>

The Code

So putting everything together, ordered list take this general form:

The Result

What I need to buy in order of importance:

1. Pants
2. Shirts
3. Socks

The TYPE Property

      The 'TYPE =' property, placed within the opening ordered list tag, < OL>, allows you to choose from five different styles of ordered lists. These change the style of the ordered list to your preference. The styles are listed below:

The START Property

      This property, also inserted in the opening ordered list tag allows you to start at any number and count up from that initial number. This works only when TYPE = '1'. So for example:

< OL type = "1" START = "3">

3. Pants
4. Shirts
5. Socks

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      Again you have the wonderful choice of selecting from those 5 styles. Make sure you practice making ordered lists in your own. But what happens if you feel like pulling out a dictionary and laying down some definitions. No problemo Definition Lists are coming you're way!