Get Second Line of Bullet Item to Indent as First Part - Not Underneath the Bullet

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Second line in li starts under the bullet after CSS-reset

The li tag has a property called list-style-position. This makes your bullets inside or outside the list. On default, it’s set to inside. That makes your text wrap around it. If you set it to outside, the text of your li tags will be aligned.

The downside of that is that your bullets won't be aligned with the text outside the ul. If you want to align it with the other text you can use a margin.

ul li {
    /*
     * We want the bullets outside of the list,
     * so the text is aligned. Now the actual bullet
     * is outside of the list’s container
     */
    list-style-position: outside;

    /*
     * Because the bullet is outside of the list’s
     * container, indent the list entirely
     */
    margin-left: 1em;
}

Edit 15th of March, 2014
Seeing people are still coming in from Google, I felt like the original answer could use some improvement

• Changed the code block to provide just the solution
• Changed the indentation unit to em’s
• Each property is applied to the ul element
• Good comments :)

How to keep indent for second line in ordered lists via CSS?

Update

This answer is outdated. You can do this a lot more simply, as pointed out in another answer below:

ul {
  list-style-position: outside;
}

See https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_list-style-position.asp

Original Answer

I'm surprised to see this hasn't been solved yet. You can make use of the browser's table layout algorithm (without using tables) like this:

ol {
    counter-reset: foo;
    display: table;
}

ol > li {
    counter-increment: foo;
    display: table-row;
}

ol > li::before {
    content: counter(foo) ".";
    display: table-cell; /* aha! */
    text-align: right;
}

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/4rnNK/1/

To make it work in IE8, use the legacy :before notation with one colon.

Make second line of text text align under first line of text

Use flexbox

.block{
  display:flex;
}
.mr-5{
  margin-right:5px;
}

<div class="block">
    <span class="mr-5">-</span> 
    <span>The fund or the employer gave a housing loan to the member and the member owes money on the loan. The fund or the employer gave a housing loan to the member and the member owes money on the loan.The fund or the employer gave a housing loan to the member and the member owes money on the loan.</span>
  </div>