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HTML

Posted by Rick Rakin
Rick Rakin
6,531 Points

Ordered List best practice

Writing the markup for an auto parts website. Going to use an information chart that correlates a certain vin code to production month. The codes are in alphabetical order, but skip some letters for whatever reason. I wonder if I'm going about things the wrong way. I haven't touched CSS for this website yet.

My IDE alerts me that the "type" attribute on the "ol" element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

How should I generate this ordered list then? The intent is two columns. Here is the codepen.

<ol type="A">
<li>January</li>
<li>February</li>
<li>March</li>
<li>April</li>
<li>May</li>
<li value="8">June</li>
</ol>
<ol type="A">
<li value="11">July</li>
<li value="13">August</li>
<li value="16">September</li>
<li value="18">October</li>
<li>November</li>
<li>December</li>
</ol>

1 Answer

Brandon Flade
Brandon Flade
2,769 Points
Brandon Flade
Brandon Flade
2,769 Points

HTML should look like this:

<ol class="upper-alpha">
<li>January</li>
<li>February</li>
<li>March</li>
<li>April</li>
<li>May</li>
<li value="8">June</li>
</ol>
<ol class="upper-alpha">
<li value="11">July</li>
<li value="13">August</li>
<li value="16">September</li>
<li value="18">October</li>
<li>November</li>
<li>December</li>
<ol>

CSS should look like this:

ol.upper-alpha {list-style-type: upper-alpha;}
Rick Rakin
Rick Rakin
6,531 Points

Okay so basically the same markup, just be sure to use the list-style-type attribute. Good! Thanks for this advice.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Richard Rakin - Understanding the reason you do it this way is pretty important.

HTML is about structure not presentation so you shouldn't use any tags that don't have a semantic meaning. type = "A" doesn't describe the type of data that goes into a list, merely how to present that data on the screen.