`<steps>`

Steps are a series of actions that people perform in a specific order and manner.

Rendering expectations

Steps that contain only a single step should be rendered as a paragraph. Steps that contain two or more steps should be rendered as an ordered list.

Implementations might want to consider having their stylesheets render a label for this element.

Specialization hierarchy

The <steps> element is specialized from <ol>. It is defined in the task module.

Attributes

The following attributes are available on this element: universal attributes.

Example

This section is non-normative.

The following code sample shows a simple task topic with two steps:

<task id="sqlj">
<title>Creating an SQLJ file</title>
 <taskbody>
 <context>Once you have set up SQLJ, you can create a new SQLJ file.</context>
  <steps>
   <step>
    <cmd>In a text editor, create a new file.</cmd>
   </step>
   <step>
    <cmd>Enter the first query statement.</cmd>
   </step>
  </steps>
 </taskbody>
</task>