How to Use CSS to Surround a Number With a Circle

How to use CSS to surround a number with a circle?

Here's a demo on JSFiddle and a snippet:

.numberCircle {    border-radius: 50%;    width: 36px;    height: 36px;    padding: 8px;
    background: #fff;    border: 2px solid #666;    color: #666;    text-align: center;
    font: 32px Arial, sans-serif;}

<div class="numberCircle">30</div>

How to create a circle with a number in the center that scales to fit the circle in HTML/CSS?

I think this code solves your problem. Just make sure the font-size and the width of the parent is same, (5 rem in this example).

div{  font-size: 5rem;  width: 5rem;
  background-color: aquamarine;  padding: 1rem;  display: inline-flex;  justify-content: center;  align-items: center;  border-radius: 50%;}

<div>5</div>

Surround numbers with a circle using span

This is just a simple css thing. The span is not a block level element. Set display: block; on the span to get the proper blue circles, and set margin: 0 auto; to center the spans within the grid elements if you like. No need for the floats.

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Circle around inline number

For your .circled class you need to add the following styles:

.category-nav .circled {
    ...
    line-height: em(12); /* needs to match the height */
    display: inline-block; /* needs to not be an inline element */
    text-align: center; /* center the character*/
}

Unable to widen CSS circle/oval around number

Width and height will not work in your case unless you set the display property of the label.

Try adding padding to the element instead.

.oval {
    background-color: #92D050;
    border-radius: 50%;
    padding: 5px 8px;
}

Test<sup><label class="oval">2</label></sup>

HTML + CSS: Numbered list with numbers inside of circles

The horizontal layout aspect of the question can be achieved using CSS float and/or display:inline-block;. These are well documented for this, as list elements are often used for creating drop-down menus using this technique, so I won't discuss it further here.

The circled number aspect is a bit more tricky.

It can't be achieved using standard list styles, unless you're prepared to use graphics, and hard-code the image name each one. This is quite an old-school approach, and I suspect it's not what you're looking for.

One idea that popped into my head would be to use a font that has its numbers in circles, such as this one, and then simply style the <ol> element to use that font, and the <li> element to use your regular font. The down-side of this is that you'd have to keep your list below 10 items, and the user's browser would need to download a whole font just for that. Also, you would need to pick one that matched the other fonts on your site. Probably not an ideal solution, but it would work.

A more practical solution would be to abandon the list style entirely (still use the same HTML markup, but set list-style:none;). The numbers would then be inserted using CSS's little-used :before and count() features.

In your case, it would be along the following lines:

ol ul:before {
    content: counter(mylist);
}

This will give you the same numbered sequence. You would then need to add further styles to the selector above to give it a circle background, some colours, and a bit of margin. You would also need to style the <li> element somehow so that its entire text was indented from the number rather than wrapping below the number. I expect this could be done with display:inline-block; or similar.

It might need a bit of experimentation, and I haven't given the complete answer, but the technique would definitely work.

See quirksmode.org for a writeup and examples, along with a browser compatibility chart.

And the browser compatibility chart gives a clue as to the one major down-side of this technique: It won't work in IE7 or earlier. It does work in IE8 though, and in all other browsers, so if you can live with IE7 users not seeing it (and there aren't that many of them these days), then it should be fine.

How to Use CSS to Surround a Number With a Circle