I know this is a fairly old topic, but it's come up several times and I
don't know if this solution has ever been stated before:
You can actually set the value attribute for the li elements with
the number you want it to have. After that, all succeeding lis will be
numbered based on that one.
Friesen
Sent: Sat 10/13/2007 11:53 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Catch 22 list problem
My 2cent;
At my College, we often wish to publish excerpts from official policy
manuals tc where we're showing Section 2.4.7, Paragraphs B through
G, points 3-16, and so on...
The CSS
Going back to the original post:
Pick your poison:
1. Invalid code
2. Use a transitional DOCTYPE
3. Set value with DOM-script
I'm surprised that no one has said #2; just fall back to a transitional
doctype. You can still write your markup with standards in mind, use the
deprecated attribute,
That's pretty much what we did; usually hx and p, with ul where
appropriate. But I still look longingly at the counters in CSS, and
grimace everytime someone says, But we have to add in another point
between 2 and 3...
On 2007-Oct-14, at 14:10 , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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How hard would it be to have the list start with two empty elements,
removed from view in what ever way works best?
Mike
It would be very simple, though you'd need to use a class for it.
Empty list items isn't exactly semantic, however, and anyone browsing with
css turned off would see two
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How hard would it be to have the list start with two empty elements,
removed from view in what ever way works best?
That would be dangerously close to using markup to achieve a certain
visual effect though.
P
--
Patrick H. Lauke
Jens Brueckmann skrev:
there do exist counters in CSS, see
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/generate.html#counters
but, as you might have guessed, they are not supported by Internet Explorer.
Yes. I was a bit too short on that one...
As you already observed, list counters are rather content
Next question: How would a custom DTD affect standards-compliance vz.
quirks mode. That is a subject that I have no knowledge about.
I prepared a short example at http://lairx.de/071011/numbering-lists.html
Triggers strict mode in Firefox - what about MSIE, Opera, Safari, etc?
Opera
On Oct 13, 2007, at 10:10 PM, Jens Brueckmann wrote:
I prepared a short example at http://lairx.de/071011/numbering-
lists.html
Triggers strict mode in Firefox - what about MSIE, Opera, Safari,
etc?
Opera 9.23/Win32+Linux and MSIE 6 SP1 both render in strict mode as
well.
I do not
ideas - my preferred
option would really be to work around the problem...
Mike
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Sent: Sat 10/13/2007 12:25 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Catch 22 list problem
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How
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Subject: Re: [WSG] Catch 22 list problem
On Oct 12, 2007, at 4:42 AM, Keryx Web wrote:
A. li value=3 is not allowed in strict HTML 4/XHTML 1.0,
Spec says
use CSS.
B. I want to start at 3.
C: CSS has no means to specify a start value!
Pick your poison:
1. Invalid code
2. Use
Hi all!
Short version:
A. li value=3 is not allowed in strict HTML 4/XHTML 1.0, Spec says
use CSS.
B. I want to start at 3.
C: CSS has no means to specify a start value!
Pick your poison:
1. Invalid code
2. Use a transitional DOCTYPE
3. Set value with DOM-script
Long version:
How do we
Actually, read this page instead:
http://www.arraystudio.com/as-workshop/make-ol-list-start-from-number-different-than-1-using-css.html
I just realised that is not in XHTML.
On 11/10/2007, Svip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try ol start=3 instead.
Regards,
Svip
On 11/10/2007, Keryx Web [EMAIL
Try ol start=3 instead.
Regards,
Svip
On 11/10/2007, Keryx Web [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all!
Short version:
A. li value=3 is not allowed in strict HTML 4/XHTML 1.0, Spec says
use CSS.
B. I want to start at 3.
C: CSS has no means to specify a start value!
Pick your poison:
1.
Hi Lars,
A. li value=3 is not allowed in strict HTML 4/XHTML 1.0, Spec says
use CSS.
B. I want to start at 3.
C: CSS has no means to specify a start value!
But regardless of whom I should blame there is a problem to solve. I
would like to know which solution that you would use and why.
I'm in the 'Invalid code' camp here.
Of course it matters what your target market is too, and whether it
would be an issue if the numbers just didn't show up for IE users
(likely the case).
To my mind, the numbers in a list are inherently content and should
not be passed off to the
On Oct 12, 2007, at 4:42 AM, Keryx Web wrote:
A. li value=3 is not allowed in strict HTML 4/XHTML 1.0, Spec
says use CSS.
B. I want to start at 3.
C: CSS has no means to specify a start value!
Pick your poison:
1. Invalid code
2. Use a transitional DOCTYPE
3. Set value with DOM-script
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