HTML:lists

[Chuck Bearden]

On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Robert Sullivan wrote:

> >I remember reading somewhere of a way (Netscape extension?) to substitute
> >an image for the disc, circle, or square preceding items <LI>listed</LI>
> >in an <UL>unordered</UL> list, but I found nothing in both paper and
> >online HTML guides. 
> 
> I checked the official HTML 3.2 spec at:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32.html#html
> 
> and it did not mention this capability, so perhaps it is an extension.
> 
> Bob Sullivan                               scp_sulli at sals.edu
> Schenectady County Public Library (NY)     http://www.scpl.org

According to O'Reilly's _Webmaster_in_a_Nutshell_, Netscape 2 and
later support a type attribute to the <ul> tag, with possible values 
of circle, disc, or square, e.g.:

<ul type=square>
<li>First item
<li>Second item
</ul>