[CSS] Counters

You don't have to get stuck on how the browser renders a numbered list. You can implement your own design utilizing counters(). Here's how:

ul {
    margin: 0;
    font-family: sans-serif;

    /* Define & Initialize Counter */
    counter-reset: list 0;
}

ul li {
    list-style: none;
}

ul li:before {
    padding: 5px;
    margin: 0 8px 5px 0px;
    display: inline-block;
    background: skyblue;
    border-radius: 50%;
    font-weight: 100;
    font-size: 0.75rem;

    /* Increment counter by 1 */
    counter-increment: list 1;
    /* Show incremented count padded with `.` */
    content: counter(list) ".";
}

This works for any other DOM element apart from <ul> and <ol>.