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Ordered, unordered, and definition lists

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Ordered, unordered, and definition lists

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- [Instructor] There are three types of lists that are used on websites, the ordered list, the unordered list and what's called either a definition or a description list. You might be familiar with ordered and unordered lists. Sometimes we call these number lists and bullet lists because of how they appear in the browser, but we don't want to pick the list-type by its appearance, we need to pick it by its function. Once again, you can apply CSS to make an unordered list have numbers or an ordered list have bullets. We need to think about the function of the list before we pick out what kind that we're going to code. I'm going to scroll all the way down here to the bottom where we have our aside, we have our various categories here and then this is just a list of, perhaps categories for our various types of blog posts. Clearly that's a list of things. And while marketing may tell you that this has to go in a certain order, the truth of the matter is, we don't have to visit the Beauty…

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