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list-style-type

{{CSSRef}} 

The list-style-type CSS property sets the marker (such as a disc, character, or custom counter style) of a list item element.

{{InteractiveExample("CSS Demo: list-style-type")}} 

list-style-type: space-counter;

list-style-type: disc;

list-style-type: circle;

list-style-type: "\1F44D";

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div>
    <p>NASA Notable Missions</p>
    <ul class="transition-all unhighlighted" id="example-element">
      <li>Apollo</li>
      <li>Hubble</li>
      <li>Chandra</li>
      <li>Cassini-Huygens</li>
    </ul>
  </div>
  <hr />
  <div class="note">
    <p>
      <code>space-counter</code> is defined with
      <a
        href="//developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/CSS/@counter-style"
        target="_parent"
        ><code>@counter-style</code></a
      >
    </p>
  </div>
</section>

.default-example {
  font-size: 1.2rem;
}

#example-element {
  width: 100%;
  background: #be094b;
  color: white;
}

section {
  text-align: left;
  flex-direction: column;
}

hr {
  width: 50%;
  color: lightgray;
  margin: 0.5em;
}

.note {
  font-size: 0.8rem;
}

.note a {
  color: #009e5f;
}

@counter-style space-counter {
  symbols: "\1F680" "\1F6F8" "\1F6F0" "\1F52D";
  suffix: " ";
}

The marker will be currentcolor, the same as the computed color of the element it applies to.

Only a few elements ({{HTMLElement("li")}}  and {{HTMLElement("summary")}} ) have a default value of display: list-item. However, the list-style-type property may be applied to any element whose {{cssxref("display")}}  value is set to list-item. Moreover, because this property is inherited, it can be set on a parent element (commonly {{HTMLElement("ol")}}  or {{HTMLElement("ul")}} ) 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;

/* <string> 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:

Note that:

Values

Refer to the All list style types example to see the above values in action. Details of all the available counter styles used by various cultures around the world can be found in Ready-made Counter Styles.

Non-standard extensions

A few predefined types are supported by Mozilla (Firefox) with a -moz- prefix.

See the compatibility table to check which browsers support which extension.

Accessibility

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. This can be resolved by adding role="list" to the list’s opening tag. To learn more about this and potential workarounds, see list-style.

Formal definition

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Formal syntax

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Examples

Setting list item markers

HTML

List 1
<ol class="normal">
  <li>Hello</li>
  <li>World</li>
  <li>What's up?</li>
</ol>

List 2
<ol class="shortcut">
  <li>Looks</li>
  <li>Like</li>
  <li>The</li>
  <li>Same</li>
</ol>

CSS

ol.normal {
  list-style-type: upper-alpha;
}

/* or use the shortcut "list-style": */
ol.shortcut {
  list-style: upper-alpha;
}

Result

{{EmbedLiveSample("Setting_list_item_markers","200","300")}} 

All list style types

HTML

<ol>
  <li>Apollo</li>
  <li>Hubble</li>
  <li>Chandra</li>
  <li>Cassini-Huygens</li>
  <li>Spitzer</li>
</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;
}

JavaScript

const container = document.querySelector(".container");
const list = document.querySelector("ol");

container.addEventListener("change", (event) => {
  list.setAttribute("style", `list-style-type: ${event.target.value}`);
});

Result

{{EmbedLiveSample("All_list_style_types", "600", "800")}} 

We’re not limited to the list style types defined on this page or the specification. The {{cssxref("@counter-style")}}  at-rule enables creating counters using any alphabet.

Specifications

{{Specifications}} 

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}} 

See also

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