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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications HTML Lists

Charlotte Ashley
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Charlotte Ashley
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 3,870 Points
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Charlotte Ashley
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 3,870 Points

Unordered and Ordered Lists

Even when I have used <ol></ol> I keep getting bullet points as opposed to numbers. Does anyone know why this might be?

2 Answers

Jason Larson
Jason Larson
8,353 Points

There are 2 things that I can think of that would cause the issue. The first, as Ismael Liriano said could be a conflicting style rule. Check your .css for a list-style or list-style-type property, and also check for any rules targeting li. If that's not the case, be sure that your <ol></ol> tags only have your list items inside. If you have <ul></ul> tags within your ordered list, the unordered list values would have higher priority because they are inside.

<!-- wrong -->
<ol>
  <ul>
    <li>item1</li>
    <li>item2</li>
  </ul>
</ol>

<!-- right -->
<ol>
  <li>item1</li>
  <li>item2</li>
</ol>
Ismael Liriano
Ismael Liriano
11,490 Points
Ismael Liriano
Ismael Liriano
11,490 Points

Hi! There might be a CSS rule conflicting with the style of ordered lists.