HTML DOM Style listStyle Property

The HTML DOM Style listStyle property is used for setting or returning the three properties named list-style-type, list-style-position and list-style-image.

Following is the syntax for −

Setting the listStyle property −

object.style.listStyle = "type position image|initial|inherit"

The above properties are explained as follows −

Parameter	Description
type	Fordefining the list-item marker type.
position	Forsetting the list-item marker positions
image	Forspecifying the image set as list-item marker.
initial	Forsetting this property to initial value.
inherit	Toinherit the parent property value

Let us look at an example for the listStyle property −

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script>
   function changeListStyle() {
      document.getElementById("LIST1").style.listStyle = "upper-roman";
      document.getElementById("Sample").innerHTML="The list style has been changed to upper Roman";
   }
</script>
</head>
<body>
   <ul id="LIST1">
      <li>MANGO</li>
      <li>GUAVA</li>
      <li>LITCHI</li>
      <li>WATERMELON</li>
   </ul>
   <p>Click the below button to change the list style for the above div</p>
   <button type="button" onclick="changeListStyle()">Change list style</button>
   <p id="Sample"></p>
</body>
</html>

Output

HTML DOM Style listStyle Property

On clicking the “Change List Style” button −

HTML DOM Style listStyle Property