Using CSS, is it possible to decrease the size of a list bullet WITHOUT using images?

Question

Basically I want to fine tune my bullets without the use of background images or list-style-images. I'd prefer to NOT have to use span tags...strictly a stylesheet since there are quite a few lists in this project.

Answer 1

No, the only way you can decrease the size of the actual bullet point is to use an image.

Sorry,

Chad

Answer 2

Why not list-style-images? No need for spans with them, they'd be strictly in the stylesheet. Else you might play with placing a period with a fixed number of em spaces before each list item, list-style-type none, and diddle with em margin on the ul and negative em margin on the li items to get the appropriate alignment.

I'm not sure all browsers support the :first-letter selector as in li:first-letter but you might look into that, too.