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Re: [css-d] <li> numbering redux and depricated <ol start="N">

Sent by Dramatic Design on 23 September 2002 02:02


On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:59:53 -0400, Alan K. Gay wrote:

>HTML prior to 4.0 allowed a start="N" attribute inside the <OL> tag.
>That attribute has been deprecated, so I can't validate "strict" with it
>in place.  What is the CSS way to start an ordered list at a number
>other than "1"?
>
In theory:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/generate.html#propdef-counter-reset

In practise:
AFAIK only Opera (4+) supports it.

In my opinion:
It should have been left in *HTML, because list numbering is structural
more often than it is presentational.

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