SMRTR ProgrammingMay 17, 2026Hacker News

You don't know HTML Lists

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HTML has five distinct list types, and most developers only use two. This deep dive covers ordered, unordered, description, menu, and control lists — including lesser-known tricks like pairing datalist with range inputs, using dl for JSON debugging, the semantic difference between nav and menu, and when ol attributes like reversed and start actually matter.

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