apply list-style-type to ul or li

Question

I cant seem to find a conclusive answer on whether i should be applying the style list-style-type ( or any of it's relatives ) to ul/ol tags or to the li tag. This is probably because it doesn't make any difference but maybe someone could confirm that and offer a suggestion as to best practice.

Answer 1

the best practice is to assign list styles to the list itself (ul, ol), and li's will have it because of the cascading

from w3 css2.1 recommendation:

Inheritance will transfer the 'list-style' values from OL and UL elements to LI elements. This is the recommended way to specify list style information.

however, ie6 and 7 won't recognize this inheritance correctly, so you'll have to apply the list styles to li elements if you plan to support them