Define Custom List-item Markers, Bullets for UL, OL Lists

By default, the HTML UL element displays a bullet (•) in front of each LI list, and the OL element displays list items marked with numbers. This list-item markers can be removed, or replaced with other symbol /character, or with an image, using CSS properties.

The examples contain the CSS and HTML code in the same place, but you should add the CSS code in the <head> section of your HTML document, or in external '.css' file.

• To remove the bullets from UL lists, or the numbering from OL lists, apply: list-style: none; to that UL /OL.

<style>
ul.nobull, ol.nobull {
 list-style: none;
}
</style>

<h4>Example removing bullets from lists</h4>

UL list.
<ul class='nobull'>
 <li>Free Courses and Tutorials</li>
 <li>CSS lessons</li>
</ul><br>

OL list.
<ol class='nobull'>
 <li>https://CoursesWeb.net/</li>
 <li>https://marplo.net/</li>
</ol>

Custom Markers / Bullets

To display a custom marker / bullet for UL / OL lists, apply list-style: none; to that UL /OL. And set the :before pseudo-class to the LI of that UL /OL, with the 'Hex code' for custom bullet to content property (the symbol must be specified in Code Hex notation).

To this page: HTML Symbol Entities there are tables with various HTML code hex entities.

- In the body of :before pseudo-class you can set the color, size, and other styles for the custom bullet.

<style>
ul.bull1, ol.bull2 {
 list-style: none;
}
ul.bull1 li:before {
 content: '\00BB'; /* code Hex notation */
 padding-right: 8px;
 color:#0000be;
}
ol.bull2 li:before {
 content: '\272C'; /* code Hex */
 padding-right: 8px;
 color:#00be00;
}
</style>

<h4>Example lists with custom bullets</h4>

UL list.
<ul class='bull1'>
 <li>Free Courses and Tutorials</li>
 <li>CSS course</li>
 <li>CSS lessons</li>
</ul><br>

OL list.
<ol class='bull2'>
 <li>https://CoursesWeb.net/</li>
 <li>https://marplo.net/</li>
</ol>

- Another way to display a custom bullet for UL / OL lists, is to replace the bullet with an image, using this syntax:

list-style-image: url('image.jpg');

- Example:

<style>
ul {
 list-style-image: url('image.jpg');
}
</style>

list-style-type

• By default, the OL element displays a numbered list, starting from 1 (1, 2, 3, ...). To set another type of numbering, like letters, roman, etc.; use the list-style-type property to that OL.
This property specifies the type of list-item marker.
- To start the numbering from other index, add start='index' attribute in the OL tag.

<style>
ol.numlatin {
 list-style-type: upper-latin;
}
ol.numdec {
 list-style-type: decimal-leading-zero;
}
</style>

<h4>Example list-style-type to OL</h4>

 - Lists with upper latin letters.
<ol class='numlatin'>
 <li>Free Courses and Tutorials</li>
 <li>Flash Games</li>
 <li>CSS lessons</li>
</ol><br>

 - Starts the numbering from the 3rd index, with decimal leading zero.
<ol class='numdec' start='3'>
 <li>MarPlo.net</li>
 <li>GamV.eu</li>
 <li>CoursesWeb.net</li>
</ol>

• Here is other types of list-item marker values for list-style-type property.

Click on each value (blue text) to see example.

none - the marker is removed.
inherit - the value is inherited from parent element.
circle - the marker is a circle.
disc - filled circle, bullet. Default for <ul> (•).
square - the marker is a square.
cjk-ideographic - plain ideographic numbers.
decimal - the marker is a number. This is default for <ol> (1, 2, 3, ...).
decimal-leading-zero - number with leading zeros (01, 02, 03, ...).
georgian - traditional Georgian numbering.
hebrew - traditional Hebrew numbering.
hiragana - traditional Hiragana numbering.
hiragana-iroha - traditional Hiragana iroha numbering.
katakana - traditional Katakana numbering.
katakana-iroha - traditional Katakana iroha numbering.
lower-alpha - the marker is lower-alpha (a, b, c, ...).
lower-greek - the marker is lower-greek.
lower-latin - the marker is lower-latin (a, b, c, d, ...).
lower-roman - the marker is lower-roman (i, ii, iii, iv, ...).
upper-alpha - the marker is upper-alpha (A, B, C, ...).
upper-latin - the marker is upper-latin (A, B, C, ...).
upper-roman - the marker is upper-roman (I, II, III, IV, ...).

list-style-position

By default, the list-item markers appear outside the content flow. To display the list-item markers /bullets inside the content flow, apply the: list-style-position: inside; property to UL /OL item.
This property specifies if the list-item markers should appear inside or outside the content flow. It can take one of these values: inside, outside, inherit.

<style>
ul.insbull, ol.insbull {
 list-style-position: inside;
}
ul li, ol li {
 border: 1px solid blue;
}
</style>

<h4>Example list-style-position: inside</h4>

 - Default.
<ul>
 <li>List 1</li>
 <li>List 2</li>
</ul><br>

 - List-item markers inside the content flow.
<ul class='insbull'>
 <li>Free Courses and Tutorials</li>
 <li>CSS course</li>
 <li>CSS lessons</li>
</ul><br>

<ol class='insbull'>
 <li>MarPlo.net</li>
 <li>CoursesWeb.net</li>
</ol>

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Daily Test with Code Example

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

PHP-MySQL

Which tag is used to add lists into <ul> and <ol> elements?

<ul>
 <li>http://coursesweb.net/html/</li>
 <li>http://coursesweb.net/css/</li>
</ul>

Which value of the "display" property creates a block box for the content and ads a bullet marker?

block list-item inline-block

.some_class {
  display: list-item;
}

Which instruction converts a JavaScript object into a JSON string.

JSON.parse() JSON.stringify eval()

var obj = {
 "courses": ["php", "javascript", "ajax"]
};
var jsonstr = JSON.stringify(obj);
alert(jsonstr);    // {"courses":["php","javascript","ajax"]}

Indicate the PHP class used to work with HTML and XML content in PHP.

stdClass PDO DOMDocument

$strhtml = '<body><div id="dv1">CoursesWeb.net</div></body>';
$dochtml = new DOMDocument();
$dochtml->loadHTML($strhtml);
$elm = $dochtml->getElementById("dv1");
echo $elm->nodeValue;    // CoursesWeb.net