diff --git a/default_environment/stylesheet/main.css b/default_environment/stylesheet/main.css
index 8b0708a..29b6d0f 100644
--- a/default_environment/stylesheet/main.css
+++ b/default_environment/stylesheet/main.css
@@ -103,6 +103,22 @@ body {
         font-size: 1.5rem;
         font-weight: 500;
     }
+
+    .plain_list {
+        &.unordered {
+            list-style-type: disc;
+            padding-left: 2.5rem;
+        }
+
+        &.ordered {
+            list-style-type: decimal;
+            padding-left: 2.5rem;
+        }
+
+        &.descriptive {
+
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 /* A stand-alone blog post (not in a blog stream). */
diff --git a/default_environment/templates/html/plain_list.dust b/default_environment/templates/html/plain_list.dust
index fdc240e..8170515 100644
--- a/default_environment/templates/html/plain_list.dust
+++ b/default_environment/templates/html/plain_list.dust
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {@select key=.list_type}
-  {@eq value="unordered"}<ul>{#.children}{>plain_list_item/}{/.children}</ul>{/eq}
-  {@eq value="ordered"}<ol>{#.children}{>plain_list_item/}{/.children}</ol>{/eq}
-  {@eq value="descriptive"}<dl>{#.children}{>plain_list_item/}{/.children}</dl>{/eq}
+  {@eq value="unordered"}<ul class="plain_list unordered">{#.children}{>plain_list_item/}{/.children}</ul>{/eq}
+  {@eq value="ordered"}<ol class="plain_list ordered">{#.children}{>plain_list_item/}{/.children}</ol>{/eq}
+  {@eq value="descriptive"}<dl class="plain_list descriptive">{#.children}{>plain_list_item/}{/.children}</dl>{/eq}
   {@none}{!TODO: make this panic!}ERROR: Unrecognized list type {.list_type}.{/none}
 {/select}