© Adrian W. West 2016

Adrian W. West, Practical Web Design for Absolute Beginners, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1993-5_31

31. Styled Bullet Points

Adrian W. West1 

(1)Colyton, UK

The appearance and positioning of bullet points can be modified using CSS. This overcomes a problem associated with the default bullets in multicolumn text pages. This chapter contains the following sections to enable you to customize the bullets and to improve the layout of bulleted text:

  • The problem with default bullets

  • Create a test page

  • Reduce the gaps caused by the default bullets

  • Add bold headings to the bulleted paragraphs

  • More bullet styles using CSS

  • Summary

The Problem with Default Bullets

In multicolumn pages, the text in each column can appear to be rather narrow because the bullets ...

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