HTML DOM Style listStyleType Property

# Style listStyleType Property

Style Object

## Example

Change the list-item marker type to "upper-roman":

document.getElementById("myList").style.listStyleType="upper-roman";
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## Definition and Usage

The listStyleType property sets or returns the list-item marker type.

## Browser Support

The listStyleType property is supported in all major browsers.

Note: IE9 and Opera 11 do not support: cjk-ideographic, hebrew, hiragana, hiragana-iroha, katakana, and katakana-iroha.

Note: IE8 supports the property values: decimal-leading-zero, lower-greek, lower-latin, upper-latin, armenian, and georgian only if a DOCTYPE is specified!

## Syntax

Return the listStyleType property:

object.style.listStyleType

Set the listStyleType property:

object.style.listStyleType=value

## Property Values

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.)
initial | Sets this property to its default value. Read about initial
inherit | Inherits this property from its parent element. Read about inherit

## Technical Details

Default Value: | "disc" for <ul> and "decimal" for <ol>
Return Value: | A String, representing the type of a list
CSS Version | CSS1

## More Examples

## Example

All the different list style types:

var listValue = selectTag.options[selectTag.selectedIndex].text;
document.getElementById("myList").style.listStyleType=listValue;
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## Example

Return the list-item marker type:

alert(document.getElementById("myList").style.listStyleType);
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## Related Pages

CSS tutorial: CSS List

CSS reference: list-style-type property

HTML DOM reference: listStyle property

Style Object

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