TOPIC 1: Lists

There are many different ways to categorize lists in html. Ordered lists are tagged as <ol>, unirdered lists are tagged as <ul>, and the elements of the list are tagged as <li>. And definition lists are categorized as <dl> and their elements are are tagged as <dt> for the term being defined and <dd> for the definition. Lastly, to nest a list within another list, simply put a second list inside an <li> element.

TOPIC 2: Units of Type Size

When setting type for a site, units of percentages and ems are more likely to vary if a user has changed their default size of text in their browser. The best way to set font size for web is pixels (px). Pixels are relative to the resolution of the screen, so the same type face will look larger when a screen has a resolution of 800x600 vs 1280x800, and so on.

TOPIC 3: Different types of text decoration

This chapter has taught me many new ways to customize and decorate type. Letter and word spacing can be defined through CSS in units of em, and tex indents can be defined through pixels. Additionally, you can add a text shadow with a series of four values like so:

Text-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #000000; }

The first indicated how far to the left or right the shadow should fall, the second value indicates the distance to the top or bottom, the third value indicates the amount of blur that should be applied, and the fourth is the color for the drop shadow.