Learning HTML 3.2 by Examples, section 5 Descriptions of HTML 3.2 tags:

MENU - unnumbered list in menu-like form

Purpose

To present information in a menu-like format.

Typical rendering

In practise, most browsers present a MENU element exactly the same way as an UL element. A few browsers omit the bullets, however.

Theoretically, the recommendation has been and still is that MENU element be rendered as a single column menu list which is more compact than a UL element.

Basic syntax

<MENU>
<LI> list item 1
<LI> list item 2
...
</MENU>

Possible attributes

attribute name possible values meaning
COMPACT COMPACT reduced interim spacing

Typically, browsers ignore the COMPACT attribute.

Allowed context

Block container.

Contents

LI elements which do not contain block elements.

Examples

Example MENU.html: 

<MENU>
<LI> Undo
<LI> Cut
<LI> Copy
<LI> Paste
<LI> Find
<LI> Find Again
</MENU>
See also Examples of various list elements in HTML.

Notes

In HTML 4.0, the MENU element is deprecated in favor of the UL element; style sheets can be used to suggest features of the presentation of a list.

See general notes about list elements for a discussion of selecting between them.

The name of the element might be misleading. There is no true selection menu involved, just a display of menu keywords. To present a true selection menu you can use hyperlink anchors (A elements). See the section Using tables to represent menus.

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