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Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
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Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

by Danny Goodman
July 1998
Intermediate to advanced
1456 pages
65h 5m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

list-style-type — NN 4 IE 4 CSS 1

Synopsis

Inherited: Yes

Sets the kind of item marker to be displayed with each item. This attribute applies only if list-style-image is none (or not specified). The constant values available for this attribute are divided into two categories. One set is used with UL elements to present a filled disc, an empty circle, or a square (empty on the Macintosh, filled in Windows); the other set is for OL elements, whose list items can be marked in sequences of Arabic numerals, Roman numerals (uppercase or lowercase), or letters of the alphabet (uppercase or lowercase).

CSS Syntax

list-style-type: listStyleType

JavaScript Equivalent

listStyleType

Value

One constant value that is relevant to the type of list container. For UL: circle | disc | square. For OL: decimal | lower-alpha | lower-roman | upper-alpha | upper-roman. OL element sequences are treated as follows:

Type

Example

decimal

1, 2, 3, ...

lower-alpha

a, b, c, ...

lower-roman

i, ii, iii, ...

upper-alpha

A, B, C, ...

upper-roman

I, II, III, ...

Initial Value

disc (for UL); decimal (for OL).

Example

UL {list-style-type: circle}
LI {list-style-type: upper-roman}

Applies To

DD, DT, LI, OL, and UL elements and any other element assigned the display:list-item style attribute.

Object Model Reference

IE

[window.]document.all.elementID.style.listStyleType

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