On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> wrote: > These indicators are part of the content and cannot be governed by style > sheets. End users having their own custom style sheets overwriting the > indicators with their own preference would be a problem, for instance. > > I have seen at least one editor used that generates markup like this: > > <ul> > <li><span class="ol">a.</span> ...</li> > ... > > to work around this. You can see this online here: > > http://regels-stadskanaal.nl/ > > I think it would be good if we either solved this problem natively or at > least gave some advice for people finding themselves in a similar situation.
Since they are indeed part of the content, not a question of style, I'm not seeing anything wrong with putting the marker directly in the content. Preferably you'd still want to use an <ol>, though, with list-style:none on it. User stylesheets can't generally turn on <ol> markers, as a lot of sites use them or <ul>s as navigation and the like, and completely restyle them in such a way that the website would be rendered horribly if you turned the markers back on. Some advice might be a good idea, just recommending still using <ol>, turning off markers, and then putting the exact marker content into the <li>s. ~TJ
