<MENU>

NN all IE all HTML all

HTML End Tag: Required

The original idea of the menu element was to allow browsers to generate single-column lists of items. Virtually every browser, however, treats the menu element the same as a ul element to present an unordered single column list of items (usually preceded by bullets). The menu element is deprecated in HTML 4. You should be using the ul element for it in any case, because you are assured backward compatibility and forward compatibility should this element ever disappear from the browser landscape. Everything said here also applies to the deprecated dir element.

Example

Common DB Connector Types:
<MENU>
    <LI>DB-9</LI>
    <LI>DB-12</LI>
    <LI>DB-25</LI>
</MENU>

Object Model Reference

[window.]document.getElementById(elementID)

Element-Specific Attributes

compact

Element-Specific Event Handler Attributes

None.

compact	NN 6 IE 6 HTML 3.2

compact	Optional
A Boolean attribute originally designed to let browsers render the list in a more compact style than normal (smaller line spacing between items).

Example

<MENU compact>...</MENU>

Value
The presence of this attribute makes its value true.

Default
false

Object Model Reference

[window.]document.getElementById(elementID).compact

lang	NN 3 IE 4 HTML 4

lang="languageCode"	Optional
The language being used for the element's attribute values and content. A browser can use this information to assist in proper rendering of content with respect to details such as treatment of ligatures (when supported by a particular font or required by a written language), quotation marks, and hyphenation. Other applications and search engines might use this information to aid the selection of spell-checking dictionaries and the creation of indices.

Example

<SPAN lang="de">Deutsche Bundesbahn</SPAN>

Value
Case-insensitive language code.

Default
Browser default.

Object Model Reference

[window.]document.getElementById(elementID).lang