nadamt — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:28:55 +0000

Another person was able to get at least the

elements to work in Firefox:

div.body_head h4 { counter-increment: section; counter-reset: subsection; }
div.body_head h4::before { content: "§" counter(section, upper-latin) " "; }
div.body_body h5 { counter-increment: subsection; }
div.body_body h5::before { content: "§" counter(section) counter(subsection) " "; }

JeevesBond — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:23:54 +0000

I just had a search and found Eric Meyers tests on counter. These do indeed work in Firefox, but he's using lists, whereas you're using h4's. Might be a red herring, but worth a try.

JeevesBond — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:50:18 +0000

Well I can get the number working (and incrementing!) in Opera 9 preview with just the code you've supplied. However it doesn't work in Firefox. Have checked the specs and there's nothing wrong there.

Maybe Opera supports this and Firefox doesn't, pretty bleeding edge stuff you're doing here - not that there's anything wrong with that, but even the best browsers (Opera, Safari and Firefox of course) won't support everything immediately. Is there anything on mozilla.org about this? They have quite a good developers section but it only seems to concentrate on Javascript.

The relevant bits about compatibility on Opera can be found at: http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/

Sorry, think you've asked a cutting edge question before that I've been unable to answer! Wish I knew more, but the majority of us are so busy trying to bend that awful Microsoft browser into something that'll display web pages properly that we don't have time to learn up-coming techniques.

Thanks for trying to break the mould, hopefully people like you will encourage others to ditch IE. Oh and I opened it once in IE, and it crashed. Nice.