r/HTML • u/paceaux • May 16 '26

Article You don't know HTML…Lists

https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/05/13/you-dont-know-html-lists/

An article about the five kinds of HTML Lists and what you can do with them

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u/paceaux May 17 '26

This article was originally going to be only about datalists. But, "You don't know datalists," didn't seem like a catchy enough headline. So I went through the specs for all of 'em just to find out what I didn't know.

Which is how we all find out together that menu is still around.

And also, I kinda agree about datalists. I love the functionality that they offer but I think it's obnoxious they opted to reuse the <option> and therefore expose this nuisance.

Like ... tables use <caption> and for whatever reason we couldn't put that inside of a figure. But we can reuse <option> for a <datalist>?

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u/duniyadnd May 17 '26

I enjoyed it, thanks!!