<li>: The List Item element
BaselineWidely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The<li>HTML element is used to represent an item in a list. It must be contained in a parent element: an ordered list (<ol>), an unordered list (<ul>), or a menu (<menu>). In menus and unordered lists, list items are usually displayed using bullet points. In ordered lists, they are usually displayed with an ascending counter on the left, such as a number or letter.
Try it
<p>Apollo astronauts:</p><ul> <li>Neil Armstrong</li> <li>Alan Bean</li> <li>Peter Conrad</li> <li>Edgar Mitchell</li> <li>Alan Shepard</li></ul>p,li { font: 1rem "Fira Sans", sans-serif;}p { font-weight: bold;}Attributes
This element includes theglobal attributes.
valueThis integer attribute indicates the current ordinal value of the list item as defined by the
<ol>element. The only allowed value for this attribute is a number, even if the list is displayed with Roman numerals or letters. List items that follow this one continue numbering from the value set. This attribute has no meaning for unordered lists (<ul>) or for menus (<menu>).typeDeprecatedThis character attribute indicates the numbering type:
a: lowercase lettersA: uppercase lettersi: lowercase Roman numeralsI: uppercase Roman numerals1: numbers
This type overrides the one used by its parent
<ol>element, if any.Note:This attribute has been deprecated; use the CSS
list-style-typeproperty instead.
Examples
Ordered list
<ol> <li>first item</li> <li>second item</li> <li>third item</li></ol>Result
Ordered list with a custom value
<ol type="I"> <li value="3">third item</li> <li>fourth item</li> <li>fifth item</li></ol>Result
Unordered list
<ul> <li>first item</li> <li>second item</li> <li>third item</li></ul>Result
Technical summary
| Content categories | None. |
|---|---|
| Permitted content | Flow content. |
| Tag omission | The end tag can be omitted if the list item is immediately followed by another<li> element, or if there is no more content in its parent element. |
| Permitted parents | An<ul>,<ol>, or<menu> element. Though not a conforming usage, the obsolete<dir> can also be a parent. |
| Implicit ARIA role | listitem when child of anol,ul ormenu |
| Permitted ARIA roles | menuitem,menuitemcheckbox,menuitemradio,option,none,presentation,radio,separator,tab,treeitem |
| DOM interface | HTMLLIElement |
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML # the-li-element |
Browser compatibility
See also
- Other list-related HTML Elements:
<ul>,<ol>,<menu>, and the obsolete<dir>; - CSS properties that may be specially useful to style the
<li>element:- the
list-styleproperty, to choose the way the ordinal is displayed, - CSS counters, to handle complex nested lists,
- the
marginproperty, to control the indent of the list item.
- the