Last modified: 2011-10-21 23:12:34 UTC
The parser is ignoring list-style-type on unordered lists, whether it is applied to the ul element or the individual li's or both. It is not ignoring the generalized list-style, just more specific list-style-type. This only affects ordered lists; unordered properly respond to all valid values of list-style-type in inline CSS. Extensive simple test cases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SMcCandlish/Sandbox/Unordered_list_items_not_styleable (Yes, I know it's not correctly named; I created the page before I discovered that list-style will work where list-style-type must but fails to). I'm seeing this bug in the version that is deployed at en.wikipedia right now, whatever version that is. I'm not presently toying with any test installations. It seems weird that no one would have reported this before, unless it's a new bug, but I did look for previous bugs on the topic.
There's a list-style-image in the style sheets for 'li' elements; this appears to be untouched by your override of list-style-type, so the round blue bullet image is still being used.
Yep, it's working according to spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#propdef-list-style-image "This property sets the image that will be used as the list item marker. When the image is available, it will replace the marker set with the 'list-style-type' marker." Add "list-style-image: none" into your style attributes to override that, and the list-style-type will shine right through.
