HTML Nested List Elements
Q
Can List Elements Be Nested?
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A
Yes. You can nest list element within each other because:
- List items can have block elements as contents.
- List elements are block elements.
- List items can have list elements as contents resulting nested list elements.
Below is a good tutorial example of using nested list elements to build a 3-level table of contents:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Nested Lists</title>
</head>
<body>
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If you save the above document as nested_lists.html, and view it with
Internet Explorer, you will see a list tree of 3 levels as shown below:
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