I'd like to left align both the numbers and the text in my <ol>
. This is what I'm trying to accomplish:
For now, each <li>
contains an <a>
, but that can change. So far I tried putting left padding and then a text-indent on the <a>
.
Here is my code as of now.
HTML:
<ol class="dinosaurs">
<li><a>Dinosaur</a></li>
<li><a>Tyrannosaurus</a></li>
<li><a>Camptosaurus</a></li>
</ol>
CSS:
.dinosaurs{
list-style-position: inside;
}
NOTE: I'm viewing the webpage in Chrome 23 on Windows 7.
You could position the list elements like so:
.dinosaurs {
list-style-position: inside;
}
.dinosaurs li{
position: relative;
}
.dinosaurs li a {
position: absolute;
left: 30px;
}
which would yield http://jsfiddle.net/wBjud/2/
This seems to work:
.dinosaurs { counter-reset: item }
.dinosaurs li { display: block }
.dinosaurs li:before {
content: counter(item) ". ";
counter-increment: item;
width: 2em;
display: inline-block;
}
Try adding padding-left: 0;
to your style, and changing list-style-position:
to outside
if necessary.
You can fake it by using positioning, padding and margins.
jsFiddle example
.dinosaurs {
list-style-position: inside;
position:relative;
margin-left: -20px;
}
a {
position:absolute;
left:70px;
}
None of the existing answers worked for me, but by combining and building on them I found similar method that does, including for multiline entries, without requiring any tags inside list items:
ol {
counter-reset: item;
}
li {
display: block;
margin-left: 1.7em;
}
li:before {
content: counter(item) ". ";
counter-increment: item;
position: absolute;
margin-left: -1.7em;
}
Which looks like this: https://jsfiddle.net/b3dayLzo/
I think it works by putting the li:before
in the left margin of the li
.
You may want a different margin-left
.
There's no class on the ol
because in my case this appears within the style of the container.