list-style-image

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The list-style-image CSS property sets an image to be used as the list item marker.

It is often more convenient to use the shorthand list-style.

Try it

list-style-image: url("/shared-assets/images/examples/rocket.svg");

list-style-image: none;

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div>
    <p>NASA Notable Missions</p>
    <ul class="transition-all unhighlighted" id="example-element">
      <li>Apollo</li>
      <li>Hubble</li>
      <li>Chandra</li>
      <li>Cassini-Huygens</li>
      <li>Spitzer</li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</section>

.default-example {
  font-size: 1.2rem;
}

#example-element {
  width: 100%;
  background: #be094b;
  color: white;
}

section {
  text-align: left;
  flex-direction: column;
}

hr {
  width: 50%;
  color: lightgray;
  margin: 0.5em;
}

.note {
  font-size: 0.8rem;
}

.note a {
  color: #009e5f;
}

@counter-style space-counter {
  symbols: "\1F680" "\1F6F8" "\1F6F0" "\1F52D";
  suffix: " ";
}

Note: This property is applied to list items, i.e., elements with display: list-item; by default this includes <li> elements. Because this property is inherited, it can be set on the parent element (normally <ol> or <ul>) to let it apply to all list items.

Syntax

css

/* Keyword values */
list-style-image: none;

/* <url> values */
list-style-image: url("star-solid.gif");

/* valid image values */
list-style-image: linear-gradient(to left bottom, red, blue);

/* Global values */
list-style-image: inherit;
list-style-image: initial;
list-style-image: revert;
list-style-image: revert-layer;
list-style-image: unset;

Values

<image>: A valid image to use as the marker.
none: Specifies that no image is used as the marker. If this value is set, the marker defined in list-style-type will be used instead. This is the default value for list-style.

Formal definition

Initial value	`none`
Applies to	list items
Inherited	yes
Computed value	The keyword `none` or the computed <image>
Animation type	discrete

Formal syntax

list-style-image = 
  <image>  |
  none     

<image> = 
  <url>           |
  <image()>       |
  <image-set()>   |
  <cross-fade()>  |
  <element()>     |
  <gradient>      

<image()> = 
  image( <image-tags>? [ <image-src>? , <color>? ]! )  

<image-set()> = 
  image-set( <image-set-option># )  

<cross-fade()> = 
  cross-fade( <cf-image># )  

<element()> = 
  element( <id-selector> )  

<image-tags> = 
  ltr  |
  rtl  

<image-src> = 
  <url>     |
  <string>  

<image-set-option> = 
  [ <image> | <string> ] [ <resolution> || type( <string> ) ]?  

<cf-image> = 
  [ <image> | <color> ]  &&
  <percentage [0,100]>?  

<id-selector> = 
  <hash-token>

Examples

Using a url value

This example has a star as a marker, which we include using the <url> image function.

HTML

html

<ul>
  <li>Item 1</li>
  <li>Item 2</li>
</ul>

CSS

css

ul {
  list-style-image: url("star-solid.gif");
}

Result

Using a gradient

This example has a CSS gradient as a marker, which we create uses the linear-gradient() image function.

HTML

html

<ul>
  <li>Item 1</li>
  <li>Item 2</li>
</ul>

CSS

css

ul {
  font-size: 200%;
  list-style-image: linear-gradient(to left bottom, red, blue);
}

Result

Specifications

Specification
CSS Lists and Counters Module Level 3 # image-markers

Browser compatibility

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