Multilevel ordered lists with dotted numbering

I just came across this trick in Mozilla's documentations:

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/CSS_Counters

It allows automatic creation of dotted list items without any JavaScript logic or fiddling with list-style-* attributes. I've tested the CSS and HTML code and it works in Firefox 3, Opera 9.50 and Safari 3. IE6 and IE7 cannot generate the dotted numbering yet, but it seems IE8 is going to support it.

What's more, according to W3C's specification, we can use all the styles available in the list-style-type CSS attribute to the counter() or counters() functions. This means we can generate dotted list items with Roman and Greek numerals as well.

Maybe we can add this to CKEditor 3. But with some warning that it will not work in IE7 or below.

Fri, 08/01/2008 - 11:57

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Multilevel ordered lists with dotted numbering

The pity is that if it can't be used in IE7 and below, then it can't be used in almost any public site
It's not that it would be necessary to use something!=IE to edit the content, the problem is the end user that views the site must not use IE, and for the moment that's a hard requirement.

Fri, 08/01/2008 - 13:44

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Multilevel ordered lists with dotted numbering

and a more important point: I don't see how that can be "integrated" with CKEditor. it's part of the styles of a site, so it doesn't matter the editor used to create the content, just the abilities of the designer of that site.