Welcome to the second part of a three-part series on designing with nested HTML lists. This series shows you how to nest HTML lists by using a hands-on approach, and demonstrates how to use them for building standards-compliant drop-down menus.
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If you still haven’t read the preceding article of this series, where I introduced the core concepts for nesting HTML lists, in the next few lines I included the complete source code for a couple of hands-on examples developed in the tutorial. The examples demonstrated how to create these web page elements using different levels of nesting.
Here are the corresponding code samples:
(example on building a one-level deep nested list)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<title>Example on building multiple nested HTML lists</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Example on building multiple nested HTML lists</h1>
<ul>
<li>List Item 1
<ul>
<li>Sub Item 1</li>
<li>Sub Item 2</li>
<li>Sub Item 3</li>
<li>Sub Item 4</li>
<li>Sub Item 5</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>List Item 2
<ul>
<li>Sub Item 1
<ul>
<li>Sub Item 1</li>
<li>Sub Item 2</li>
<li>Sub Item 3</li>
<li>Sub Item 4</li>
<li>Sub Item 5</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Sub Item 2</li>
<li>Sub Item 3</li>
<li>Sub Item 4</li>
<li>Sub Item 5</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>List Item 3
<ul>
<li>Sub Item 1</li>
<li>Sub Item 2</li>
<li>Sub Item 3</li>
<li>Sub Item 4</li>
<li>Sub Item 5</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>List Item 4
<ul>
<li>Sub Item 1</li>
<li>Sub Item 2</li>
<li>Sub Item 3</li>
<li>Sub Item 4</li>
<li>Sub Item 5</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
If you pay close attention to the above code samples, then you’ll realize how simple it is to build nested HTML lists. As you can see, the first case shows the creation of a list that has one level of nesting, while the second example is a bit more complex; it illustrates how to construct a two-level-deep nested list. That was pretty easy to code and follow.
Now that you have surely grasped the logic that drives creating a few simple nested HTML lists, it’s time to enhance their visual appearance. As I expressed in the introduction, the examples developed so far look pretty skeletal, meaning that it’s necessary to incorporate into them some CSS styles, so they can look a bit more professional.
Thus, in the upcoming segment I’ll be showing you how to improve via CSS the visual presentation of the nested HTML lists that you learned before. However, to learn the details of how this process will be accomplished, please visit the following section. It’s only one click away.
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