While messing around creating a webpage, I realised (not before time) that placing brackets around alpha or numeral list items is not part of the CSS2 specification. There is a proposal to incorporate a pseudo ::marker in CSS3, but at this time its is still a long way off. The answer, for those who might have an interest can be found in the source code of this page:- http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~bristowe/test/list.html You can change the bracket styles as required, and play with the negative text-indent values as needed. Barry