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Ordered Lists <OL>, Starting index with XHTML Strict?

Is there a way to start an ordered list from a specific index while following XHTML Strict? Using start=n works well, but has been deprecated… The intended purpose is to resume the index with paging. I saw a few references to a CSS solution, but the starting index cannot be used like the attribute in the deprecated case of start. ...

Stop text wrapping in lists

Hi, I have a list: They used to bring concerns about their children or their marriages. But increasingly parishioners are also telling Glen VanderKloot, a Lutheran minister in Springfield, Ill., about their financial worries, and that puts him in the unusual position of dispensing investment advice. This is the Second g This is the ...

Is it possible to specify a starting number for an ordered list with css?

Hello, I have a ordered list where I would like the initial number to be 6. I found that this was supported (now deprecated) in HTML 4.01. In this specification they say that you can specify the starting integer by using css. (instead of the start attribute) How would you specify the starting number with css? Thanks ...

How can I add a list item in order using jQuery?

Does anyone know how to add an item to a list but do it so it's ordered alphabetically using jQuery? I've got the following code that just adds an item from a dropdown to the end of the list: $("#projectList").append( "<li>" + $("#Projects :selected").text() + " <span class='removeProject' projectId='" + $("#Projects").val()...

Float image right within li of ol, text left, works in Chrome, not IE/FF

I would like to have an ordered list that has the text on the left and an image for each li within it on the right of the li. So I floated the image to the right and it puts the image correctly on the right and text on the left, but the image is 14 pixels too low in IE and FF. Chrome does it right (see images below). This appears to me t...

Most appropriate data structure for an ordered list in an RDBMS?

I'm storing an ordered list of several million items in a MySQL database. Reasonably often, items need to be added or removed from the list; equally often, the position within the list of an item must be determined. I'd say the read/write ratio is about 50:50. Starting with a linked-list model, I read [1] and the various models discusse...

Number LI's using jQuery

I have an ordered list, but I want to number is manually in a separate span tag than use the default list-style: decimal; <ol> <li><span>1</span> item 1</li> <li><span>2</span> item 2</li> </ol> How can I achieve this using jQuery? Many thanks! ...

HTML Horizontal Ordered Lists with Numbering

I'm using an ordered list in order to get numbering, which works perfectly fine when the list is vertical. However, once I make it horizontal, the numbering disappears. The display attribute in the li CSS seems to be the culprit. HTML: <div id="QuickSteps"> <h2>5 Quick Steps</h2> <ol> <li class="selected">Account Info...

Storing Ordered Child Documents/Values in CouchDB/JSON?

What is the best way to store ordered documents in CouchDB? Say I have 100 articles and I want to order them by just visibly placing them in an order I like, or I have 10,000 images and I want them to appear in a specific order other than by date/category/etc. Is this best stored at the parent ("page" or "album" level), or child (image...

a C++ hash map that preserves the order of insertion

I have the following code: #include <iostream> #include "boost/unordered_map.hpp" using namespace std; using namespace boost; int main() { typedef unordered_map<int, int> Map; typedef Map::const_iterator It; Map m; m[11] = 0; m[0] = 1; m[21] = 2; for (It it (m.begin()); it!=m.end(); ++it) cout << i...

How to check if a list is ordered?

I am doing some unit tests and I want to know if there's any way to test if a list is ordered by a property of the objects it contains. Right now I am doing it this way but I don't like it, I want a better way. Can somebody help me please? // (fill the list) List<StudyFeedItem> studyFeeds = Feeds.GetStudyFeeds(2120, DateTime.Today.Ad...

IE6+7 showing problems with an ordered list

IE6 and 7 seem to like to push the list left, and cut off the numbers at www.qwibbledesigns.co.uk/preview/aurelius/about.html , near the bottom. Does anyone know whats going on? ...

C: Creation of ordered list by checking 2 values

Hello, I'm new to C so be patient with me if you see some really newbie error in my code! As part of a homework, I need to create an ordered list in order to store some data. What I've done so far is to create the struct which will represent each node of the list (firstNode is a global variable that points to the first node of the list...

Ordered list rendering inconsistency in IE7

For the following sample ordered list markup and CSS, IE7 is rendering the numbers alongside the bottom of the list item, whereas FF, Safari and Chrome are behaving as desired, with the numbers aligned alongside the top of the list item. http://bit.ly/aCq5F5 Does anybody have any suggestions as to how to get IE7 to render with the same...

How to change list to CSV, and vice versa, in PHP.

I have a text file like.... [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] I want to convert it to CSV with the help of a little bit PHP, and I want to know also how it can be reversed...ie from CSV to an ordered, or un-ordered list.....kindly help me please :) ...

How to save an order (permutation) in an sql db

I have a tree structure in an sql table like so: CREATE TABLE containers ( container_id serial NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, parent integer REFERENCES containers (container_id)) Now i want to define an ordering between nodes with the same parent. I Have thought of adding a node_index column, to ORDER BY, but that seem suboptimal, since that...

Searching for a semantic syntax highlighter in Javascript

OK, I know, there are literally dozens of already available syntax highlighters out there. But I want one specifically, that implements line numbers through <ol/> lists. And that reduces the number of possible candidates to one, Lighter.js. Unfortunately, that is MooTools based, and since I decided some time ago to use jQuery, I don't wa...

How do I sort a collection of Lists in lexicographic order in Scala?

If A has the Ordered[A] trait, I'd like to be able to have code that works like this val collection: List[List[A]] = ... // construct a list of lists of As val sorted = collection sort { _ < _ } and get something where the lists have been sorted in lexicographic order. Of course, just because A has the trait Ordered[A] doesn't mean th...

How do you get the numbers of an ordered list to show on the left in IE?

I have a rows of data in div tags that float left and have widths set. They are inside li tags. Everything works fine in chrome and FF, but in IE8 the numbers show up in the middle of my rows, right next to the last div tag that doesn't have a float left. The lists are created dynamically so I'll try to recreate an example. <ol id='l...

Remove decimal from ordered <ol> list via CSS?

I assume the answer is "no," but I thought I'd throw the question out there to all you CSS ninjas, since it has cropped up before, and when you're digging through code that involves a whole team, the happiest answer isn't always "well, just rework the code." Given an ordered list: <ol> <li>...</li> <li>...</li> <li>...</li>...