My Favorite Things <OL TYPE=1 START=1> <LI>Cats <LI>Computers <LI>Pizza </OL>

Make sure once again, that you use the <LI> tag when listing each item. In the Ordered List tag, this time use a TYPE=, such as 1 or A or a, then a START=, to tell the list at which point to start. Like this: <OL TYPE=1 START=1>. This list would be numbered starting with number 1.

Summary:
TYPE attributes for <UL TYPE="...">are:

• disc
• circle
• square

TiP:You may also use these TYPE attributes as <LI TYPE="..."> before each item...

And TYPE attributes for <OL TYPE="..."> are:

• A
• a
• I
• i
• 1

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List Item Tag:

To make this list, you start with the opening tag <UL> or <OL>, whichever kind of list you are using. Then you make the list of what you want, each item starting with List Item <LI>. Then, don't forget to close your Unordered or Ordered List tag with </UL> or </OL>. If you want the little dots to show next to each item, in your <UL> tag, put TYPE=circle or square or disc. Like this: <UL TYPE=circle>.

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Preformatted Tags:

The <pre> </pre> tags are used to make your web page look as you want it to. HTML does not recognize indents and specific columns. So you use the <pre> </pre> tags to do that for you. Like this:

Monthly Income
_______________________________________________________

  January       February       March        April

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 $1585.96       $1264.58       $1353.63     $1146.39

Now the text will be laid out the way you typed it into your .html file. Here is how it was coded:

Blink Tags:

Marquee Tags:

<MARQUEE BGCOLOR="#0000F0">This will be scrolling if you are using MS Internet Explorer. See how the BGCOLOR attribute allows you to change the background color of the MARQUEE?</MARQUEE>

<MARQUEE BEHAVIOR="SLIDE">This will SLIDE...and stick</MARQUEE>

<MARQUEE BEHAVIOR="ALTERNATE">This will Alternate</MARQUEE>

Other attributes are:

• ALIGN="..." values of "TOP", "MIDDLE", and "BOTTOM"
• DIRECTION="..." values of "Left" or "Right"
• HEIGHT="..." specifies the height of the MARQUEE in pixels or %.
• HSPACE="..." specifies the left and right margins of the MARQUEE in pixels.
• LOOP="..." the number of times to loop.."-1" or "INFINITE" make it loop indefinitely.
• SCROLLAMOUNT="..." number of pixels between each draw of the marquee.
• SCROLL DELAY="..." number of milliseconds between each draw of the marquee
• VSPACE="..." top and bottom margin for the outside of the marquee
• WIDTH="..." the width of the marquee in pixels or percentage of the screen.

Blockquote Tags:

There are two more HTML tags to be aware of, they are not coding to make things visable on your web page, they are reference codes.

The first is the COMMENT tag, this tag is useful to you, for when you want to edit and update your web page, which should be done often. As you write your page, make comments to yourself on your page, such as: <!-- about me --> Then below the comment would be what you let your viewers know about you. Use <!-- comment --> often, so you can easily find where you need to go to fix or change things. Try something. Up on the menu bar of your browser, you will see View. Click on View, then go down to Source. You will then see how this page is constructed. Notice the many comments we have used. It makes editing a lot easier in the future.

The next HTML tag is the DOCTYPE tag. This tag is one the tells browsers what version of HTML you are using. In this case we are using HTML3.2 so, at the very top of each page we have written we have included the DOCTYPE tag, it looks like this:

This way, the browser knows this page has been coded with HTML3.2.

Try early on in writing HTML to use these two tags, it will save time and energy later on.

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