It changes the style of the bullet or format of the number that precedes each list item. Its values are discussed as
Value | Description |
armenian | The marker is traditional Armenian numbering |
circle | The marker is a circle |
cjk-ideographic | The marker is plain ideographic numbers |
decimal | The marker is a number. This is default for <ol> |
decimal-leading-zero | The marker is a number with leading zeros (01, 02, 03, etc.) |
disc | The marker is a filled circle. This is default for <ul> |
georgian | The marker is traditional Georgian numbering |
hebrew | The marker is traditional Hebrew numbering |
hiragana | The marker is traditional Hiragana numbering |
hiragana-iroha | The marker is traditional Hiragana iroha numbering |
katakana | The marker is traditional Katakana numbering |
katakana-iroha | The marker is traditional Katakana iroha numbering |
lower-alpha | The marker is lower-alpha (a, b, c, d, e, etc.) |
lower-greek | The marker is lower-greek |
lower-latin | The marker is lower-latin (a, b, c, d, e, etc.) |
lower-roman | The marker is lower-roman (i, ii, iii, iv, v, etc.) |
none | No marker is shown |
square | The marker is a square |
upper-alpha | The marker is upper-alpha (A, B, C, D, E, etc.) |
upper-latin | The marker is upper-latin (A, B, C, D, E, etc.) |
upper-roman | The marker is upper-roman (I, II, III, IV, V, etc.) |
It is used as
ul.circle {list-style-type:circle}
ul.square {list-style-type:square}
ol.upper-roman {list-style-type:upper-roman}
ol.lower-alpha {list-style-type:lower-alpha}
The list-style-type has the value of ‘disc’ as the default value for unordered list and ‘decimal’ for unordered list on a web page. It gives option to change an ordered list to a list using Roman numerals for markers, or a bulleted list to one using squares instead of circles for markers.
Unordered Lists Styling – It has four styles for its list bullets consisting of disc , circle , square and none . The default value is disc and all major browsers support these values.
Ordered Lists Styling – The number preceding the list items in an ordered list can be formatted
with the keywords consisting armenian , cjk-ideographic , decimal , decimal-leading-zero , georgian , hebrew , hiragana , hiragana-iroha , inherit , katakana , katakana-iroha , lower-alpha , lower-greek , lower-latin , lower-roman , none , upper-alpha , upper-latin , upper-roman.
But support for the full range of list styles varies amongst different web browsers.