[Chapter 8] 8.8 Appropriate List Usage
Author: Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy
Date: Fri Sep 5 13:20:51 1997

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## 8.8 Appropriate List Usage

In general, use unordered lists for:

- Hotlists and other link collections

- Short, nonsequenced groups of text

- Emphasizing the high points of a presentation

In general, use ordered lists for:

- Tables of content

- Instruction sequences

- Sets of sequential sections of text

- Assigning numbers to short phrases that can be referenced elsewhere

In general, use definition lists for:

- Glossaries

- Custom bullets (make the item after the `<dt>` tag an icon-sized bullet image)

- Any list of name/value pairs

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