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<menu></menu>

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<menu> Description:

The <menu></menu> tag was designed to create a single column menu list.

Deprecated in favor of the <ul></ul> element.

<menu> Web Browser Support:

<menu> Attributes:

<menu> End Tag:

</menu> REQUIRED

<menu> Contents:

List elements. The following tags are valid within the <menu> tag:
li

<menu> Valid Context:

The <menu> tag is valid within the following tags:
blockquote, body, button, center, dd, div, fieldset, form, iframe, li, noframes, noscript, object, td, th

<menu> Usage:

  • standard menu list
    My cats' names are:
    <menu>
    <li>Suni</li>
    <li>Auto</li>
    </menu>

<menu> Special Notes:

  • This element has been deprecated in XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.0 in favor of unordered lists.

More <menu> Information:

  • Coming soon

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