Re: [CSS3-content] Implied counter-increment

fantasai wrote:
>
> So far in CSS3 I've come across two implied counters:
>   pages     (CSS3 Paged Media)
>   list-item (CSS3 Lists)
>
> The 'pages' counter is incremented on each page box, as if
>   @page { counter-increment: pages; }
> were implied.
>
> The 'list-item' counter is incremented on each list-item, as if
>   :select-all-elements-with-display-list-item { counter-increment: 
> list-item; }
> were implied.

There is also historically the counter called "page" (maybe?); see the 
message thread I started on May 25, 2007, with:

    Subject: [css3-gcpm] counter() and "special" values

This included a discussion of general counter magic.  I don't remember 
seeing a response to Håkon's question:

    Personally, I'm leaning towards defining the name of certain magic
    counters in the GCPM draft.

      http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-gcpm/

Perhaps addressing that now would be of value.

-Del

> My question is, what is the specified value of counter-increment on
> these boxes? If I specify "counter-increment: mycounter;" does the
> implied counter stop incrementing?
>
> Also, do we need to add a 'normal' or 'auto' value to counter-increment
> so that we can distinguish between
>   counter-increment: none; /* doesn't increment implied counters */
> and
>   counter-increment: normal; /* only increments any implied counters */
> ?
>
> ~fantasai
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 17 October 2007 17:52:32 UTC