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list item markers. CSS can be used to specify the type of list item maker used,
e.g.
Content
....
Content
will create square boxes instead of the usual round bullets, for each list element.
The ol lists are used for ordered lists and have the same format:
Content
....
Content
but they render their list item markers using numbers. CSS can be used to
specify that letters or roman numerals be used instead (e.g. using lower roman
or upper alpha for the list style type).
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Tables
Tables are a very useful formatting tool for web pages. They provide a mech
anism for presenting tabular data and specifying how the table should appear
on the page. The general form of the table element is:
Content ....Content Content ....Content ....Content ....Content
The contents of the table must consist of a sequence of tr elements representing
the rows of the table. Each row consists of a sequence of td elements corre
sponding to the data stored in each cell of the table. Optionally, the first row