HTML DOM Ul Object

The HTML DOM Ul Object in HTML represents the <ul> element.

Creating a <ul> element

var ulObject = document.createElement(“UL”)

Here, “ulObject” can have the following properties but are not supported in HTML5 −

Property	Description
compact	Itsets/returns whether the unordered list should be displayedsmaller than usual
type	Itsets/returns the value of the type attribute of an unordered list

Let us see an example of unordered list element −

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Ul item()</title>
<style>
   form {
      width:70%;
      margin: 0 auto;
      text-align: center;
   }
   * {
      padding: 2px;
      margin:5px;
   }
   input[type="button"] {
      border-radius: 10px;
   }
   ul{
      width: 30%;
      margin: 0 auto;
   }
</style>
</head>
<body>
   <form>
      <fieldset>
         <legend>item( )</legend>
         <h2>Menu</h2>
         <ul>
            <li onclick="getOrder(0)">Mac & Cheese</li>
            <li onclick="getOrder(1)">Pizza</li>
            <li onclick="getOrder(2)">Burger</li>
         </ul>
         <div id="divDisplay">Click on menu item to order it</div>
      </fieldset>
   </form>
<script>
   var divDisplay = document.getElementById("divDisplay");
   var menuSelect = document.getElementsByTagName("li");
   function getOrder(index) {
      divDisplay.textContent = 'Order: '+(menuSelect.item(index)).textContent;
   }
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output

Before clicking ‘<li>’ element −

HTML DOM Ul Object

After clicking ‘<li>’ element −

HTML DOM Ul Object