XHTML/CSS query

[j4]

Okay, this may be a dumb question, but is there a way in XHTML/CSS to create a nested ordered list like this:

1. a list with some stuff in:
        1.1 stuff here
        1.2 more stuff
        1.3 guess what, a nested list:
                1.3.1 stoat
                1.3.2 weasel
                1.3.3 badger
        1.4 no list here

2. another list, or whatever

etc.?

I have looked in all the usual places and they all seem to say "no, can't be done", but you guys are clever...

Update: I really do mean with the numbering as above (1, 1.1, 1.1.1 etc.) not just nested lists in general -- sorry for not being more clear. And it looks like the answer's "no" anyway. :-/

Comments

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

Does this help?

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/generate.html#counters

[nja.livejournal.com]

See my first comment above - this is CSS2 and it would be very nice if browsers supported it, but they don't. There are some lovely things you could do using the :before and :after selectors, and things like "li + li + li" to select the third item in a list, but they just don't work with current browsers.

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

Hm… googling around a bit, it does appear to be a bit of CSS2 that nothing except Opera currently supports. Ho-hum.

Actually, I'm bored enough to install no-cost version of Opera and test the sample code from W3C.
<clickity-click>

Yep, that appears to do exactly what j4 wants, using an open standard that's supported on precisely one web browser that few people use.

[j4.livejournal.com]

This, AFAICTSF, is the main problem with stylesheets -- you can theoretically do shedloads of really funky stuff with them, but the funky stuff is generally only supported on only one browser (and not always the same one, though usually Opera or NS7) if any.

Grrrr.

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

They're getting there, but very slowly. I've no idea why it takes so long for web standards to be implemented in browsers.

Just noticed that it was CSS2 (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/)'s 6^th birthday yesterday. Happy belated birthday, CSS2. I hope somebody starts paying attention to you soon.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I've just bought the O'Reilly CSS book (Two Fish). Eric Meyer has a lovely habit of spending six pages telling you a really neat CSS trick, only to note in a box at the end that it won't work in IE...

[nja.livejournal.com]

What's depressing about Lie and Bos (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201596253/qid=1084452160/sr=1-11/ref=sr_1_2_11/202-1495803-0666246)'s book, published five years ago, is that most of what they describe wouldn't work in the "big two" browsers back then, and still doesn't.