Second line in li starts under the bullet after CSS-reset
Here is a good example -
ul li{
list-style-type: disc;
list-style-position: inside;
padding: 10px 0 10px 20px;
text-indent: -1em;
}
Working Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/d9VNk/
I second Dipaks' answer, but often just the text-indent is enough as you may/maynot be positioning the ul for better layout control.
ul li{
text-indent: -1em;
}
The li
tag has a property called list-style-position
. This makes your bullets inside or outside the list. On default, it’s set to inside
. That makes your text wrap around it. If you set it to outside
, the text of your li
tags will be aligned.
The downside of that is that your bullets won't be aligned with the text outside the ul
. If you want to align it with the other text you can use a margin.
ul li {
/*
* We want the bullets outside of the list,
* so the text is aligned. Now the actual bullet
* is outside of the list’s container
*/
list-style-position: outside;
/*
* Because the bullet is outside of the list’s
* container, indent the list entirely
*/
margin-left: 1em;
}
Edit 15th of March, 2014 Seeing people are still coming in from Google, I felt like the original answer could use some improvement
- Changed the code block to provide just the solution
- Changed the indentation unit to
em
’s - Each property is applied to the
ul
element - Good comments :)