How to Make a List in HTML

Steps

Open a simple text editing program. Such as either Notepad or WordPad on Windows, TextEdit on Mac, or Nano or gEdit on Linux.

Type all preceding HTML text that you want before the horizontal line.

Determine what type of list you want to make (how the formatting should look). You have two basic styles: unordered and ordered lists.

Unordered List

Type the unordered list opening tag, with

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Type the list item opening tag for your first item with

• . At the end of the list item, close it with the closing tag
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Repeat this previous step, until all your list items are concluded.



Type the unordered list closing tag with

Type the proceeding HTML text that you want for the remainder of the document.

Ordered List

Type the ordered list opening tag, with

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Type the list item opening tag for your first item with

1. . At the end of the list item, close it with the closing tag
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Repeat this previous step, until all your list items are concluded.



Type the ordered list closing tag with

Type the proceeding HTML text that you want for the remainder of the document.