Elementary Standards HTML Tutorial
The tutorials found herein have been written for clarification of existing W3C HTML 5 and HTML 4.01 (and, by extension, xHTML 1.0 as text/html) specifications through the use of real-world examples.
compact
The compact attribute represents list compaction by User Agents (UAs). It may be found assigned with the dir, dl, menu, ol, ul elements.
[Note: This presentation attribute has been deprecated in HTML 4.01 and obsoleted in HTML 5. Therefore! Modern browsers may ignore this attribute and refuse rendering (as illustrated below).]
- Attribute name:
compact- Value:
- [None]
- Example [Basic (Ordered List with Compact)]:
-
Proper HTML Structure
- DTD
- HTML
- HEAD
- Charset
- title
- description
- BODY
- DIV
- P
- Code [HTML]:
-
<h3>Proper HTML Structure</h3> <ol compact> <li>DTD</li> <li>HTML</li> <li>HEAD <ol type="i" start="1"> <li>Charset</li> <li>title</li> <li>description</li> </ol> </li> <li>BODY <ol type="i" start="4"> <li>DIV</li> <li>P</li> </ol> </li> </ol>
- Example [Basic (sans Compact)]:
-
Proper HTML Structure
- DTD
- HTML
- HEAD
- Charset
- title
- description
- BODY
- DIV
- P
[Note: No discernible difference.]
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