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I have an ordered list in HTML. I would like to add styling only to the numbers (1,2,3,...), and not to the list items themselves.
Is there a way to refer to these numbers ?
Thanks !
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CSS2 provides for control over generated content, which will let you style the auto-generated content independently of the rest of the item using the :before pseudoclass. Here's a solution that meet's the OP's follow-up criteria (background color on the list enumerator but not the item).
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<style type="text/css">
body { margin: 0; padding: 10px; }
ol {
counter-reset: item;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
li {
display: block;
padding: 10px 0;
margin: 0 0 10px 0;
}
li:before {
content: counter(item);
/*
To generate punctuation after the number, just precede or follow with a string:
content: "Chapter " counter(item) " >> ";
To make nested counters (1, 1.1, 1.1.1, etc.), use:
content: counters(item, ".");
*/
counter-increment: item;
background-color: #ddd;
margin-right: 15px;
padding: 10px;
}
ol li ol { margin-bottom: -10px; padding-top: 10px; }
ol li ol li { margin: 10px 0 0 30px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ol>
<li>Turtles</li>
<li>Lizards
<ol>
<li>Salamanders</li>
<li>Geckos</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Velociraptors</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
Yes, you simply style the ol element and then override the style on the li element.
ol
{
color: blue;
font-style: italic;
}
ol li p
{
color: black;
font-style: normal;
}
with
<ol>
<li><p>Text</p></li>
<li><p>Text</p></li>
<li><p>Text</p></li>
</ol>
You can change the p tags to <divs> if you want, but if you keep them as p's you'll have to strip margins and paddings.
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