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List

Lists are used to organize content into groups of related information, making it easier for users to scan through your webpage and understand how certain information is connected.

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Variations

Choose from following types of button components based on your page's content design or organizational needs.

Variant
Ordered List
  • Use the ordered list to group items in a list in numerical order.
Unordered List
  • Use the unordered list to group items in a list with bullets.
Unstyled List
  • Use the unstyled list to group items in a list without numbers nor bullets.

Usage

  • Use sentence case and begin lists with a capital letter.
  • Use punctuation appropriate to the text. Do not leave sentences without periods.

Where to use

  • Use lists within inner pages.

When to use

  • Ordered list: Use an ordered list when you need to display text in some ranking, hierarchy, or series of steps.
  • Unordered list: Use unordered lists to display text in no specific order.
  • Unstyled: Use unstyled list to display a list of content items without any specific styling like numbers or bullets.

When to consider something else

  • Displaying a compact list of multiple related content items within a landing page.
    • Alternative: Use the U.S. Web Design System's (USWDS’s) Collection component to highlight six or less related content items.

Accessibility

  • Aria-Labels provide an accessible name for an element. If there is no visible name for the element, use aria-label to provide the user with a recognizable accessible name.

Code Snippets

Unordered List

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<ul class="usa-list">
<li>Unordered list item</li>
<li>Unordered list item</li>
<li>Unordered list item</li>
</ul>

Ordered List

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  1. Ordered list item
  2. Ordered list item
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<ol class="usa-list">
<li>Ordered list item</li>
<li>Ordered list item</li>
<li>Ordered list item</li>
</ol>

Packages

Import this Sass partial into your stylesheet.

@forward "usa-list";