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Dami posted this at 15:27—7th July 2004.

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The now deprecated HTML List attribute of "start" isn't addressed at all (as far as I can tell) by CSS. (The "start" attribute doesn't seem to work consistently anyway.) How is one supposed to handle long, outline-type lists that span multiple pages?

Clear as mud?

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andy206uk posted this at 15:49—7th July 2004.

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According to the W3C you use "value" instead.

Quote: Details about number order. In ordered lists, it is not possible to continue list numbering automatically from a previous list or to hide numbering of some list items. However, authors can reset the number of a list item by setting its value attribute. Numbering continues from the new value for subsequent list items. For example:

makes this list item number 30.

makes this list item number 40.
makes this list item number 41.

From http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/lists.html

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Dami posted this at 17:04—7th July 2004.

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Thank you!

I also found counter info in CSS2 references, but found it more than a bit confusing and I'm not sure how compliant browsers are to CSS2.

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