What’s an HTML bullet?

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There are two types of lists for web pages: ordered and unordered. Ordered lists use numbers or letters, while unordered lists use HTML bullets. The bullet type can be changed for each item or the entire list using specific code.

If a user wants to insert a list into a web page, they have two options: an ordered list and an unordered list. The difference between the two is that with an ordered list, items are displayed with an ascending number or letter, while an HTML bullet is used for items in an unordered list. Each list type has a different HTML tag, with

When a web browser renders a web page and encounters the

The code for creating a bulleted list within a web page would look like this:

When it comes to placing an HTML bullet in front of the listed items, you have three different options. The available choices are disk, circle and square. The default HTML bullet is a filled circle, so if a type isn’t included, the web browser will automatically insert that bullet. When a list is embedded in a list, the HTML bullet for the embedded list is disk.
The bullet type can be changed for each specific item in the list or for the entire list. To edit a specific list item, the following code is added: type=”square/disc/circle”. For a list item with a square bullet, the code should look like this:




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