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The CSS list properties allow you to:
Set different list item markers for ordered lists Set different list item markers for unordered lists Set an image as the list item marker

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In HTML, there are two types of lists: unordered lists - the list items are marked with bullets ordered lists - the list items are marked with numbers or letters With CSS, lists can be styled further, and images can be used as the list item marker.

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Different List Item Markers

The type of list item marker is specified with the list-style-type property:

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u l . a{ l i s t s t y l e t y p e :c i r c l e ; } u l . b{ l i s t s t y l e t y p e :s q u a r e ; } o l . c{ l i s t s t y l e t y p e :u p p e r r o m a n ; } o l . d{ l i s t s t y l e t y p e :l o w e r a l p h a ; }
Try it yourself Some of the values are for unordered lists, and some for ordered lists.

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An Image as The List Item Marker

To specify an image as the list item marker, use the list-style-image property:

Example
u l { l i s t s t y l e i m a g e :u r l ( ' s q p u r p l e . g i f ' ) ; }
Try it yourself The example above does not display equally in all browsers. IE and Opera will display the image-marker a little bit higher than Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. If you want the image-marker to be placed equally in all browsers, a crossbrowser solution is explained below.

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The following example displays the image-marker equally in all browsers:

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u l { l i s t s t y l e t y p e :n o n e ; p a d d i n g :0 p x ; m a r g i n :0 p x ; } u ll i { b a c k g r o u n d i m a g e :u r l ( s q p u r p l e . g i f ) ; b a c k g r o u n d r e p e a t :n o r e p e a t ; b a c k g r o u n d p o s i t i o n :0 p x5 p x ; p a d d i n g l e f t :1 4 p x ; }
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CSS Styling Lists

For ul: Set the list-style-type to none to remove the list item marker Set both padding and margin to 0px (for cross-browser compatibility) For all li in ul: Set the URL of the image, and show it only once (no-repeat) Position the image where you want it (left 0px and down 5px) Position the text in the list with padding-left

List - Shorthand property

It is also possible to specify all the list properties in one, single property. This is called a shorthand property. The shorthand property used for lists, is the list-style property:

Example
u l { l i s t s t y l e :s q u a r eu r l ( " s q p u r p l e . g i f " ) ; }
Try it yourself When using the shorthand property, the order of the values are: list-style-type list-style-position (for a description, see the CSS properties table below) list-style-image It does not matter if one of the values above are missing, as long as the rest are in the specified order.

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All the different list-item markers for lists This example demonstrates all the different list-item markers in CSS.

All CSS List Properties

Property list-style list-style-image list-style-position list-style-type Description Sets all the properties for a list in one declaration Specifies an image as the list-item marker Specifies if the list-item markers should appear inside or outside the content flow Specifies the type of list-item marker

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