Numbered lists problem from Tim Bagot on 1998-01-22 (www-style@w3.org from January 1998)

From: Tim Bagot <timothy.bagot@keble.oxford.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:06:48 +0000 (GMT)
To: Style Sheet mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980122155901.6839B-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk>

The HTML 4.0 specification (and all previous ones, AFAIAA) sets the
default starting value for ordered lists to 1. CSS 2 does this for all
types except "decimal", which it says starts at 0. I think this should be
changed to 1 to retain consistency.

Alternatively, a new list property could be added, allowing the starting
position to specified explicitly - especially since the HTML "start"
attribute is now deprecated.

Tim Bagot

Received on Thursday, 22 January 1998 11:08:15 UTC