List in CSS: A Practical Guide

Features to create lists in HTML and CSS

There are two main types of lists in HTML:

• Unorrdered (
  ) list the item with the first line characters
• Order (
  List items by number or letter

List properties in CSS allow you to:

• Select the bullet character in the list in order and not in order
• Use images to list items
• Add background color to list and listed characters

The characters list the list

The list-style-type specifies the type of character listing list, below are some examples (including both in order and not in order).

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

Use images to list items

The list-style-image will use images to list each item in the list.

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

Character placement listed

The list-style-position determines the location of the listed characters.

'list-style-position: outside;'means that the character will be outside the list.The beginning of the line of items will align with each other vertically.

'list-style-position: inside;'means that the character will be in the list.So, it will be part of the text and push the headline text into.

 ul.a { 
  list-style-position : outside ; 
 } 
 
 ul.b { 
  list-style-position : inside ; 
 } 

An example of a list is by setting the internal or external bullet character

Delete the default setting

The list-style-type: none helps delete bulleted characters. Note that the list also has default margin and padding. To remove, insert margin:0 and padding:0 and

.

 ul { 
  list-style-type : none ; 
  margin : 0 ; 
  padding : 0 ; 
 } 

The shortened feature of the list in CSS

The list-style is used as a shortened feature, giving all the properties of the list in a declaration.

 ul { 
  list-style : square inside url("sqpurple.gif") ; 
 } 

When using the shortened feature, the order of values will be as follows:

• list-style-type (if list-style-image is specified, the property value will display if for some reason the image cannot be displayed)
• list-style-position (specifying the first line of the list will be inside or outside the content)
• list-style-image (define image as the first line of the list)

If one of the values is lost, the default value (if any) will replace it.

Style the list by color

You can add colors to make the list look more attractive.Anything added to the card good all affect the entire list but additional features

only affects each item in the list.

 ol { 
  background : #ff9999 ; 
  padding : 20px ; 
 } 
 
 ul { 
  background : #3399ff ; 
  padding : 20px ; 
 } 
 
 ol li { 
  background : #ffe5e5 ; 
  padding : 5px ; 
  margin-left : 35px ; 
 } 
 
 ul li { 
  background : #cce5ff ; 
  margin : 5px ; 
 }