list-style-type

The list-style-type property specifies the appearance of a list item element. Because it is the only property that defaults to display:list-item, this is usually a <li> element, but can be any element with this display value.

Initial value	disc
Applies to	list items
Inherited	yes
Media	visual
Computed value	as specified
Animation type	discrete
Canonical order	the unique non-ambiguous order defined by the formal grammar

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

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: cjk-ideographic;
list-style-type: kannada;

/* A <string> */
list-style-type: '-';

/* Identifier matching an @counter-style rule */
list-style-type: custom-counter-style;

list-style-type: none;

/* Global values */
list-style-type: inherit;
list-style-type: initial;
list-style-type: unset;

Values

symbols()

Defines an anonymous style of the list.

none

No item marker is shown.

<string>

The specified string will be used as the item's marker.

<custom-ident>

A identifier matching the value of a @counter-style or one of the predefined styles:

disc

• A filled circle (default value)

circle

• A hollow circle

square

• A filled square

decimal

• Decimal numbers
• Beginning with 1

cjk-decimal

• Han decimal numbers
• E.g. 一, 二, 三, ..., 九八, 九九, 一〇〇

decimal-leading-zero

• Decimal numbers
• Padded by initial zeros
• E.g. 01, 02, 03, … 98, 99

lower-roman

• Lowercase roman numerals
• E.g. i, ii, iii, iv, v…

upper-roman

• Uppercase roman numerals
• E.g. I, II, III, IV, V…

lower-greek

• Lowercase classical Greek
• alpha, beta, gamma…
• E.g. α, β, γ…

lower-alpha

lower-latin

• Lowercase ASCII letters
• E.g. a, b, c, … z
• lower-latin is unsupported in IE7 and earlier
• See Browser compatibility section.

upper-alpha

upper-latin

• Uppercase ASCII letters
• E.g. A, B, C, … Z
• upper-latin is unsupported in IE7 and earlier

arabic-indic

-moz-arabic-indic

• Example

armenian

• Traditional Armenian numbering
• (ayb/ayp, ben/pen, gim/keem…

bengali

-moz-bengali

• Example

cambodian *

• Example
• Is a synonym for khmer

cjk-earthly-branch

-moz-cjk-earthly-branch

• Example

cjk-heavenly-stem

-moz-cjk-heavenly-stem

• Example

cjk-ideographic

• Identical to trad-chinese-informal
• E.g. 一萬一千一百一十一

devanagari

-moz-devanagari

• Example

ethiopic-numeric

• Example

georgian

• Traditional Georgian numbering
• E.g. an, ban, gan, … he, tan, in…

gujarati

-moz-gujarati

• Example

gurmukhi

-moz-gurmukhi

• Example

hebrew

• Traditional Hebrew numbering

hiragana

• a, i, u, e, o, ka, ki, …
• (Japanese)

hiragana-iroha

• i, ro, ha, ni, ho, he, to, …
• Iroha is the old japanese ordering of syllabs.

japanese-formal

• Japanese formal numbering to be used in legal or financial document.
• E.g., 壱萬壱阡壱百壱拾壱
• The kanjis are designed so that they can't be modified to look like another correct one

japanese-informal

• Japanese informal numbering

kannada

-moz-kannada

• Example

katakana

• A, I, U, E, O, KA, KI, …
• (Japanese)

katakana-iroha

• I, RO, HA, NI, HO, HE, TO, …
• Iroha is the old japanese ordering of syllabs.

khmer

-moz-khmer

• Example

korean-hangul-formal

• Korean hangul numbering.
• E.g., 일만 일천일백일십일

korean-hanja-formal

• Formal Korean Han numbering.
• E.g. 壹萬 壹仟壹百壹拾壹

korean-hanja-informal

• Korean hanja numbering.
• E.g., 萬 一千百十一

lao

-moz-lao

• Example

lower-armenian *

• Example

malayalam

-moz-malayalam

• Example

mongolian

• Example

myanmar

-moz-myanmar

• Example

oriya

-moz-oriya

• Example

persian

-moz-persian

• Example

simp-chinese-formal

• Simplified Chinese formal numbering.
• E.g. 壹万壹仟壹佰壹拾壹

simp-chinese-informal

• Simplified Chinese informal numbering.
• E.g. 一万一千一百一十一

tamil

-moz-tamil

• Example

telugu

-moz-telugu

• Example

thai

-moz-thai

• Example

tibetan *

• Example

trad-chinese-formal

• Traditional Chinese formal numbering.
• E.g. 壹萬壹仟壹佰壹拾壹

trad-chinese-informal

• Traditional Chinese informal numbering.
• E.g. 一萬一千一百一十一

upper-armenian *

• Example

disclosure-open

• Symbol indicating that a disclosure widget such as <details> is opened.

disclosure-closed

• Symbol indicating that a disclosure widget, like <details> 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 supports which extension.

-moz-ethiopic-halehame

• Example

-moz-ethiopic-halehame-am

• Example

ethiopic-halehame-ti-er

-moz-ethiopic-halehame-ti-er

• Example

ethiopic-halehame-ti-et

-moz-ethiopic-halehame-ti-et

• Example

hangul

-moz-hangul

• Example
• Example
• Example

hangul-consonant

-moz-hangul-consonant

• Example
• Example
• Example

urdu

-moz-urdu

• Example

Formal syntax

<counter-style> | <string> | none
where 
<counter-style> = <counter-style-name> | symbols()
where 
<counter-style-name> = <custom-ident>

Examples

CSS

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

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

HTML

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

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

Result

Notes

• 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.

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
CSS Counter Styles Level 3 The definition of 'list-style-type' in that specification.	Candidate Recommendation	Redefines CSS2.1 counters. Extends the syntax to support @counter-style rules. Defines using @counter-style the usual style types: hebrew, cjk-ideographic, hiragana, hiragana-iroha, katakana, katakana-iroha, japanese-formal, japanese-informal, simp-chinese-formal, trad-chinese-formal, simp-chinese-formal, trad-chinese-formal,korean-hangul-formal, korean-hanja-informal, korean-hanja-formal, cjk-decimal, ethiopic-numeric, disclosure-open and disclosure-closed. Extends <counter-style> with the symbols() functional notation.
CSS Lists and Counters Module Level 3 The definition of 'list-style-type' in that specification.	Working Draft	Modify syntax to support for identifiers used in @counter-style rules to keywords. Support for a simple <string>.
CSS Level 2 (Revision 1) The definition of 'list-style-type' in that specification.	Recommendation	Initial definition

Browser compatibility

[1] Before Firefox 38, Gecko added a dot as suffix of the number for ethiopic-numeric (፫. instead of ፫). The later spec defined the absence of a suffix and Gecko was then adapted.

See also

• list-style, list-style-image, list-style-position