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The CSS list properties allow you to:

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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:

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With CSS, lists can be styled further, and images can be used as the list item marker.

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

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ul.a {
list-style-type: circle;
}
ul.b {
list-style-type: square;
}
ol.c {
list-style-type: upper-roman;
}

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list-style-type: lower-alpha;
}
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Some of the values are for unordered lists, and some for ordered lists.

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An Image as The List Item Marker

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

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Example
ul {
list-style-image: url('sqpurple.gif');
}

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The example above does not display equally in all browsers. IE and Opera will display the image-marker a little bit higher
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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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ul {
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}
ul li {
background-image: url(sqpurple.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 0px 5px;
padding-left: 14px;
}
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Example explained:
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
ul {
list-style: square url("sqpurple.gif");
}
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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

Description

list-style

Sets all the properties for a list in one declaration

list-style-image

Specifies an image as the list-item marker

list-style-position

Specifies if the list-item markers should appear inside or outside the content flow

list-style-type

Specifies the type of list-item marker

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