How to remove indentation from an unordered list item?

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Html Problem Overview


I want to remove all indentation from ul. I tried setting margin, padding, text-indent to 0, but no avail. Seems that setting text-indent to a negative number does the trick - but is that really the only way to remove the indentation?

Html Solutions


Solution 1 - Html

Set the list style and left padding to nothing.

ul {
    list-style: none;
    padding-left: 0;
}​

ul {
  list-style: none;
  padding-left: 0;
}

<ul>
  <li>a</li>
  <li>b</li>
  <li>c</li>
</ul>

To maintain the bullets you can replace the list-style: none with list-style-position: inside or the shorthand list-style: inside:

ul {
  list-style-position: inside;
  padding-left: 0;
}

ul {
  list-style-position: inside;
  padding-left: 0;
}

<ul>
  <li>a</li>
  <li>b</li>
  <li>c</li>
</ul>

Solution 2 - Html

My preferred solution to remove <ul> indentation is a simple CSS one-liner:

ul { padding-left: 1.2em; }

<p>A leading line of paragraph text</p>
<ul>
    <li>Bullet points align with paragraph text above.</li>
    <li>Long list items wrap around correctly. Long list items wrap around correctly. Long list items wrap around correctly. Long list items wrap around correctly. Long list items wrap around correctly. </li>
    <li>List item 3</li>
</ul>
<p>A trailing line of paragraph text</p>

This solution is not only lightweight, but has multiple advantages:

  • It nicely left-aligns <ul>'s bullet points to surrounding normal paragraph text (= indenting of <ul> removed).
  • The text blocks within the <li> elements remain correctly indented if they wrap around into multiple lines.

Legacy info:
For IE versions 8 and below you must use margin-left instead:

    ul { margin-left: 1.2em; }

Solution 3 - Html

display:table-row; will also get rid of the indentation but will remove the bullets.

Solution 4 - Html

Add this to your CSS:

ul { list-style-position: inside; }

This will place the li elements in the same indent as other paragraphs and text.

Ref: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_list-style-position.asp

Solution 5 - Html

Remove the padding:

padding-left: 0;

Solution 6 - Html

Can you provide a link ? thanks I can take a look Most likely your css selector isnt strong enough or can you try

padding:0!important;

Solution 7 - Html

I have the same problem with a footer I'm trying to divide up. I found that this worked for me by trying few of above suggestions combined:

footer div ul {
    list-style-position: inside;
    padding-left: 0;
}

This seems to keep it to the left under my h1 and the bullet points inside the div rather than outside to the left.

Solution 8 - Html

Live demo: https://jsfiddle.net/h8uxmoj4/

ol, ul {
  padding-left: 0;
}

li {
  list-style: none;
  padding-left: 1.25rem;
  position: relative;
}

li::before {
  left: 0;
  position: absolute;
}

ol {
  counter-reset: counter;
}

ol li::before {
  content: counter(counter) ".";
  counter-increment: counter;
}

ul li::before {
  content: "●";
}

Since the original question is unclear about its requirements, I attempted to solve this problem within the guidelines set by other answers. In particular:

  • Align list bullets with outside paragraph text
  • Align multiple lines within the same list item

I also wanted a solution that didn't rely on browsers agreeing on how much padding to use. I've added an ordered list for completeness.

Solution 9 - Html

Doing this inline, I set the margin to 0 (ul style="margin:0px"). The bullets align with paragraph with no overhang.

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