<DIR></DIR>

Contains an unordered list

Used to mark up a section of text to be displayed like a directory listing.

	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Directory listing of department</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	   .
	   .
==>>	<dir>
	<li>Richard Nixon</li>
	<li>Gerald Ford</li>
==>>	</dir>
	   .
	   .
	</body>
	</html>

This is one of the original tags used in HTML. The browser writers never really took the recommendation of the specification to display this as a multi-column directory. Instead they treat it the same as a ul (unordered list). So there you have it.

HTML 3.2 Final

Nothing more to add.

Netscape

Nothing special.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Nothing special.

Internationalization

Nothing special.

Michael T. Rusk
Comments to author: mike@ruskfamily.com

Revised: Sunday, December 30, 2007 11:06 -0500
URL: ./htmlgd/tagdir.html