[html] how do I get the bullet points of a <ul> to center with the text?

When I try to center a <ul> the text in the <li> centers but the bullet points stay on the far left of the page. Is there any way to get the bullet points to stay with the text when it is centered?

#abc{text-align: center; }

<div id="section1">
<div id="abc">
<ul>
<li>one</li>
<li>two</li>
<li>three</li>
</ul>
<div/>
<div/>

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The answer is


Add list-style-position: inside to the ul element. (example)

The default value for the list-style-position property is outside.

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ul {_x000D_
    text-align: center;_x000D_
    list-style-position: inside;_x000D_
}
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<ul>_x000D_
    <li>one</li>_x000D_
    <li>two</li>_x000D_
    <li>three</li>_x000D_
</ul>
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Another option (which yields slightly different results) would be to center the entire ul element:

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.parent {_x000D_
  text-align: center;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.parent > ul {_x000D_
  display: inline-block;_x000D_
}
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<div class="parent">_x000D_
  <ul>_x000D_
    <li>one</li>_x000D_
    <li>two</li>_x000D_
    <li>three</li>_x000D_
  </ul>_x000D_
</div>
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ul {
  padding-left: 0;
  list-style-position: inside;
}

Explanation: The first property padding-left: 0 clears the default padding/spacing for the ul element while list-style-position: inside makes the dots/bullets of li aligned like a normal text.

So this code

<p>The ul element</p>
<ul>
asdfas
  <li>Coffee</li>
  <li>Tea</li>
  <li>Milk</li>
</ul>

without any CSS will give us this:
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but if we add in the CSS give at the top, that will give us this:
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Here's how you do it.

First, decorate your list this way:

<div class="p">
<div class="text-bullet-centered">&#8277;</div>
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 
</div>
<div class="p">
<div class="text-bullet-centered">&#8277;</div>
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 
</div>

Add this CSS:

.p {
    position: relative;
    margin: 20px;
    margin-left: 50px;
}
.text-bullet-centered {
    position: absolute;
    left: -40px;
    top: 50%;
    transform: translate(0%,-50%);
    font-weight: bold;
}

And voila, it works. Resize a window, to see that it indeed works.

As a bonus, you can easily change font and color of bullets, which is very hard to do with normal lists.

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.p {_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
  margin: 20px;_x000D_
  margin-left: 50px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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.text-bullet-centered {_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  left: -40px;_x000D_
  top: 50%;_x000D_
  transform: translate(0%, -50%);_x000D_
  font-weight: bold;_x000D_
}
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<div class="p">_x000D_
  <div class="text-bullet-centered">&#8277;</div>_x000D_
  text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text_x000D_
  text text text text text text text text text text text text text_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
<div class="p">_x000D_
  <div class="text-bullet-centered">&#8277;</div>_x000D_
  text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text_x000D_
  text text text text text text text text text text text text text_x000D_
</div>
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I found the answer today. Maybe its too late but still I think its a much better one. Check this one https://jsfiddle.net/Amar_newDev/khb2oyru/5/

Try to change the CSS code : <ul> max-width:1%; margin:auto; text-align:left; </ul>

max-width:80% or something like that.

Try experimenting you might find something new.


You can do that with list-style-position: inside; on the ul element :

ul {
    list-style-position: inside;
}

See working fiddle


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