I have been searching for the list of tags that are available inside a <li>
but couldn't find any reference.
Is it possible that any standards-compliant HTML 4+ block element is allowed in them?
I have been searching for the list of tags that are available inside a <li>
but couldn't find any reference.
Is it possible that any standards-compliant HTML 4+ block element is allowed in them?
Yup pretty much. You can have lists inside lists (
either inside thethe inner list must be inside an<li>
or just loose inside the<ol>
/<ul>
<li>
), block elements and inline elements. To me it wouldn't make much sense to put a<table>
inside an<li>
, but even that's still valid.TL;DR: an
<li>
can contain any element that is valid in<body>
.In the HTML 4.01 spec for lists you’ll find the relevant extract of the DTD:
This specifies that an
<li>
may contain flow content, which is the collection of all block and inline elements.The HTML5 spec for an
<li>
is the same in that it also allows any flow content.You can use the W3C's Markup Validation Service to test against your cases to know whether or not your markup is valid.
It's a block level element so pretty much anything goes. Trouble only comes when you're putting block level elements inside inline ones.