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I have an html file with an unordered list. I want to show the list items horizontally but still keep the bullets. No matter what I try, whenever I set the style to inline to meet the horizontal requirement I can't get the bullets to display.
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To create unordered list in HTML, use the <ul> tag. The unordered list starts with the <ul> tag. The list item starts with the <li> tag and will be marked as disc, square, circle, etc. The default is bullets, which is small black circles.
We use the <ul> tag to create an unordered list. As usual, we need to use the <li> tags within <ul> and <ul/> to create the list items. The list items ( li ) inside the unordered list ( ul ) come with the default style of bullet points – so each of the list items is preceded by a black dot.
If you want to make this navigational unordered list horizontal, you have basically two options: Make the list items inline instead of the default block. .li { display: inline; } This will not force breaks after the list items and they will line up horizontally as far as they are able.
The best option I saw in other answers was to use float:left;. Unfortunately, it doesn't work in IE7 which is a requirement here* — you still lose the bullet. I'm not really keen on using a background image either.
What I'm gonna do instead (that no one else suggested, hence the self-answer) is go with manually adding • to the my html, rather than styling this. It's less than ideal, but it's the most compatible option I found.
edit: *Current readers take note of the original post date. IE7 is unlikely to be a concern anymore.
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