list-style-type
The list-style-type CSS property sets the marker (such as a disc, character, or custom counter style) of a list item element.
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The color of the marker will be the same as the computed color of the element it applies to.
Only a few elements ( and ) have a default value of display: list-item . However, the list-style-type property may be applied to any element whose display value is set to list-item . Moreover, because this property is inherited, it can be set on a parent element (commonly or ) to make it apply to all list items.
Syntax
/* Partial list of types */ list-style-type: disc; list-style-type: circle; list-style-type: square; list-style-type: decimal; list-style-type: georgian; list-style-type: trad-chinese-informal; list-style-type: kannada; /* value */ list-style-type: "-"; /* Identifier matching an @counter-style rule */ list-style-type: custom-counter-style; /* Keyword value */ list-style-type: none; /* Global values */ list-style-type: inherit; list-style-type: initial; list-style-type: revert; list-style-type: revert-layer; list-style-type: unset;
The list-style-type property may be defined as any one of:
- Some types require a suitable font installed to display as expected.
- The cjk-ideographic is identical to trad-chinese-informal ; it exists for legacy reasons.
Values
An identifier matching the value of a @counter-style or one of the predefined styles:
Defines an anonymous style of the list.
The specified string will be used as the item’s marker.
A filled circle (default value).
Decimal numbers, beginning with 1.
Decimal numbers, padded by initial zeros.
Lowercase classical Greek.
Traditional Armenian numbering.
Han «Earthly Branch» ordinals.
Han «Heavenly Stem» ordinals.
Identical to trad-chinese-informal .
Traditional Georgian numbering.
Traditional Hebrew numbering.
Dictionary-order hiragana lettering.
Japanese formal numbering to be used in legal or financial documents. The kanjis are designed so that they can’t be modified to look like another correct one.
Japanese informal numbering.
Dictionary-order katakana lettering.
Formal Korean Han numbering.
Lowercase Armenian numbering.
Myanmar (Burmese) numbering.
Simplified Chinese formal numbering.
Simplified Chinese informal numbering.
Traditional Chinese formal numbering.
Traditional Chinese informal numbering.
Traditional uppercase Armenian numbering.
Symbol indicating that a disclosure widget such as is opened.
Symbol indicating that a disclosure widget, like is closed.
Non-standard extensions
A few more predefined types are provided by Mozilla (Firefox), Blink (Chrome and Opera) and WebKit (Safari) to support list types in other languages. See the compatibility table to check which browsers support which extension.
- -moz-ethiopic-halehame
- -moz-ethiopic-halehame-am
- ethiopic-halehame-ti-er , -moz-ethiopic-halehame-ti-er
- ethiopic-halehame-ti-et , -moz-ethiopic-halehame-ti-et
- hangul , -moz-hangul
- hangul-consonant , -moz-hangul-consonant
- urdu , -moz-urdu
Accessibility concerns
Safari will not recognize an ordered or unordered list as a list in the accessibility tree if it has a list-style-type value of none . To learn more about this and potential workarounds, see list-style .
Formal definition
Formal syntax
list-style-type =
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none
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symbols( ? [ | ]+ )
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cyclic |
numeric |
alphabetic |
symbolic |
fixed
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url( * ) |
src( * )
Examples
Setting list item markers
HTML
ol class="normal"> li>Helloli> li>Worldli> li>What's up?li> ol> List 2 ol class="shortcut"> li>Looksli> li>Likeli> li>Theli> li>Sameli> ol>
CSS
ol.normal list-style-type: upper-alpha; > /* or use the shortcut "list-style": */ ol.shortcut list-style: upper-alpha; >
Result
All list style types
HTML
ol> li>Apolloli> li>Hubbleli> li>Chandrali> li>Cassini-Huygensli> li>Spitzerli> ol> h2>Choose a list style type:h2> div class="container"> label for="disc"> input type="radio" id="disc" name="type" value="disc" />disc label> label for="circle"> input type="radio" id="circle" name="type" value="circle" />circle label> label for="square"> input type="radio" id="square" name="type" value="square" />square label> label for="decimal"> input type="radio" id="decimal" name="type" value="decimal" />decimal label> label for="cjk-decimal"> input type="radio" id="cjk-decimal" name="type" value="cjk-decimal" />cjk-decimal label> label for="decimal-leading-zero"> input type="radio" id="decimal-leading-zero" name="type" value="decimal-leading-zero" />decimal-leading-zero label> label for="lower-roman"> input type="radio" id="lower-roman" name="type" value="lower-roman" />lower-roman label> label for="upper-roman"> input type="radio" id="upper-roman" name="type" value="upper-roman" />upper-roman label> label for="lower-greek"> input type="radio" id="lower-greek" name="type" value="lower-greek" />lower-greek label> label for="lower-alpha"> input type="radio" id="lower-alpha" name="type" value="lower-alpha" />lower-alpha, lower-latin label> label for="upper-alpha"> input type="radio" id="upper-alpha" name="type" value="upper-alpha" />upper-alpha, upper-latin label> label for="arabic-indic"> input type="radio" id="arabic-indic" name="type" value="arabic-indic" />arabic-indic label> label for="armenian"> input type="radio" id="armenian" name="type" value="armenian" />armenian label> label for="bengali"> input type="radio" id="bengali" name="type" value="bengali" />bengali label> label for="cambodian"> input type="radio" id="cambodian" name="type" value="cambodian" />cambodian label> label for="cjk-earthly-branch"> input type="radio" id="cjk-earthly-branch" name="type" value="cjk-earthly-branch" />cjk-earthly-branch label> label for="cjk-heavenly-stem"> input type="radio" id="cjk-heavenly-stem" name="type" value="cjk-heavenly-stem" />cjk-heavenly-stem label> label for="cjk-ideographic"> input type="radio" id="cjk-ideographic" name="type" value="cjk-ideographic" />cjk-ideographic label> label for="devanagari"> input type="radio" id="devanagari" name="type" value="devanagari" />devanagari label> label for="ethiopic-numeric"> input type="radio" id="ethiopic-numeric" name="type" value="ethiopic-numeric" />ethiopic-numeric label> label for="georgian"> input type="radio" id="georgian" name="type" value="georgian" />georgian label> label for="gujarati"> input type="radio" id="gujarati" name="type" value="gujarati" />gujarati label> label for="gurmukhi"> input type="radio" id="gurmukhi" name="type" value="gurmukhi" />gurmukhi label> label for="hebrew"> input type="radio" id="hebrew" name="type" value="hebrew" />hebrew label> label for="hiragana"> input type="radio" id="hiragana" name="type" value="hiragana" />hiragana label> label for="hiragana-iroha"> input type="radio" id="hiragana-iroha" name="type" value="hiragana-iroha" />hiragana-iroha label> label for="japanese-formal"> input type="radio" id="japanese-formal" name="type" value="japanese-formal" />japanese-formal label> label for="japanese-informal"> input type="radio" id="japanese-informal" name="type" value="japanese-informal" />japanese-informal label> label for="kannada"> input type="radio" id="kannada" name="type" value="kannada" />kannada label> label for="katakana"> input type="radio" id="katakana" name="type" value="katakana" />katakana label> label for="katakana-iroha"> input type="radio" id="katakana-iroha" name="type" value="katakana-iroha" />katakana-iroha label> label for="khmer"> input type="radio" id="khmer" name="type" value="khmer" />khmer label> label for="korean-hangul-formal"> input type="radio" id="korean-hangul-formal" name="type" value="korean-hangul-formal" />korean-hangul-formal label> label for="korean-hanja-formal"> input type="radio" id="korean-hanja-formal" name="type" value="korean-hanja-formal" />korean-hanja-formal label> label for="korean-hanja-informal"> input type="radio" id="korean-hanja-informal" name="type" value="korean-hanja-informal" />korean-hanja-informal label> label for="lao"> input type="radio" id="lao" name="type" value="lao" />lao label> label for="lower-armenian"> input type="radio" id="lower-armenian" name="type" value="lower-armenian" />lower-armenian label> label for="malayalam"> input type="radio" id="malayalam" name="type" value="malayalam" />malayalam label> label for="mongolian"> input type="radio" id="mongolian" name="type" value="mongolian" />mongolian label> label for="myanmar"> input type="radio" id="myanmar" name="type" value="myanmar" />myanmar label> label for="oriya"> input type="radio" id="oriya" name="type" value="oriya" />oriya label> label for="persian"> input type="radio" id="persian" name="type" value="persian" />persian label> label for="simp-chinese-formal"> input type="radio" id="simp-chinese-formal" name="type" value="simp-chinese-formal" />simp-chinese-formal label> label for="simp-chinese-informal"> input type="radio" id="simp-chinese-informal" name="type" value="simp-chinese-informal" />simp-chinese-informal label> label for="tamil"> input type="radio" id="tamil" name="type" value="tamil" />tamil label> label for="telugu"> input type="radio" id="telugu" name="type" value="telugu" />telugu label> label for="thai"> input type="radio" id="thai" name="type" value="thai" />thai label> label for="tibetan"> input type="radio" id="tibetan" name="type" value="tibetan" />tibetan label> label for="trad-chinese-formal"> input type="radio" id="trad-chinese-formal" name="type" value="trad-chinese-formal" />trad-chinese-formal label> label for="trad-chinese-informal"> input type="radio" id="trad-chinese-informal" name="type" value="trad-chinese-informal" />trad-chinese-informal label> label for="upper-armenian"> input type="radio" id="upper-armenian" name="type" value="upper-armenian" />upper-armenian label> label for="disclosure-open"> input type="radio" id="disclosure-open" name="type" value="disclosure-open" />disclosure-open label> label for="disclosure-closed"> input type="radio" id="disclosure-closed" name="type" value="disclosure-closed" />disclosure-closed label> label for="-moz-ethiopic-halehame"> input type="radio" id="-moz-ethiopic-halehame" name="type" value="-moz-ethiopic-halehame" />-moz-ethiopic-halehame label> label for="-moz-ethiopic-halehame-am"> input type="radio" id="-moz-ethiopic-halehame-am" name="type" value="-moz-ethiopic-halehame-am" />-moz-ethiopic-halehame-am label> label for="ethiopic-halehame-ti-er"> input type="radio" id="ethiopic-halehame-ti-er" name="type" value="ethiopic-halehame-ti-er" />ethiopic-halehame-ti-er label> label for="ethiopic-halehame-ti-et"> input type="radio" id="ethiopic-halehame-ti-et" name="type" value="ethiopic-halehame-ti-et" />ethiopic-halehame-ti-et label> label for="hangul"> input type="radio" id="hangul" name="type" value="hangul" />hangul label> label for="hangul-consonant"> input type="radio" id="hangul-consonant" name="type" value="hangul-consonant" />hangul-consonant label> label for="urdu"> input type="radio" id="urdu" name="type" value="urdu" />urdu label> label for="-moz-ethiopic-halehame-ti-er"> input type="radio" id="-moz-ethiopic-halehame-ti-er" name="type" value="-moz-ethiopic-halehame-ti-er" />-moz-ethiopic-halehame-ti-er label> label for="-moz-ethiopic-halehame-ti-et"> input type="radio" id="-moz-ethiopic-halehame-ti-et" name="type" value="-moz-ethiopic-halehame-ti-et" />-moz-ethiopic-halehame-ti-et label> label for="-moz-hangul"> input type="radio" id="-moz-hangul" name="type" value="-moz-hangul" />-moz-hangul label> label for="-moz-hangul-consonant"> input type="radio" id="-moz-hangul-consonant" name="type" value="-moz-hangul-consonant" />-moz-hangul-consonant label> label for="-moz-urdu"> input type="radio" id="-moz-urdu" name="type" value="-moz-urdu" />-moz-urdu label> div>
CSS
ol font-size: 1.2rem; > .container column-count: 3; > label display: block; > input margin: 0.4rem; >