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Summary
The HTML directory element (<dir>) represents a directory, namely a collection of filenames.
Usage note: Do not use this element. Though present in the early HTML specification, it has been deprecated in HTML 4, then is obsolete in HTML 5. Use the {{ HTMLElement("ul") }} instead.
DOM Interface
This element implements the HTMLDirectoryElement interface.
Attributes
Like all other HTML elements, this element supports the global attributes.
- {{ htmlattrdef("compact") }}
- This Boolean attribute hints that the list should be rendered in a compact style. The interpretation of this attribute depends on the user agent and it doesn't work in all browsers. Usage note: Do not use this attribute, as it has been deprecated: the {{ HTMLElement("dir") }} element should be styled using CSS. To give a similar effect than the compact attribute, the CSS property line-height can be used with a value of 80%.
See also
- Other list-related HTML Elements: {{ HTMLElement("ol") }}, {{ HTMLElement("ul") }}, {{ HTMLElement("li") }}, {{ HTMLElement("menu") }};
- CSS properties that may be specially useful to style the <dir> element:
- the list-style property, useful to choose the way the ordinal is displayed,
- CSS counters, useful to handle complex nested lists,
- the line-height property, useful to simulate the deprecated {{ htmlattrxref("compact", "dir") }} attribute,
- the margin property, useful to control the indent of the list.
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