Re: Transvestite OL (fwd)

Hi Jonathan!

I put the CSS on one of my pages and tested because I use IE 4.01.

The list was centered in middle of page and listed (I added a couple of
more)

1.   first
2.  second
3.  third
4.  fourth

Looks good to me.

Joyce
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Blake <blakej1(at)nevada.edu>
To: hwg-style(at)hwg.org <hwg-style(at)hwg.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 7:47 PM
Subject: Transvestite OL (fwd)


>I posted this to the languages list before I realized that there was a
>more appropriate forum...
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
>No this isn't spam. :)
>
>I've come across an IE CSS bug and I'm hoping someone knows a workaround.
>Very minimal example:
>
>--------------
><style>
>ol { width: 400px; }
></style>
>
><ol>
><li>first</li>
><li>second</li>
></ol>
>--------------
>
>When viewed in IE 5.0 (I haven't been able to test it in other IE's yet),
>you see a bulleted list rather than an ordered list. So I figured
>it wanted me to specify the style of the list explicitly:
>
>--------------
><style>
>ol

> width: 400px;
> list-style-type: decimal;
>}
></style>
>
><ol>
><li>first</li>
><li>second</li>
></ol>
>--------------
>
>No dice. I got it to become a numbered list - but the numbers were all 1!
>
>Any help would be appreciated. TIA.
>
>--
>Jon Blake
>
>"Semper ubi sub ubi!"
>Loosely translated: No unfurnished basements!
>

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