25496 2014-04-29 05:47:55 +0000 Interaction between style of lists and CSS counter styles spec 2014-07-21 21:21:48 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED P3 normal Unsorted 1 xidorn+w3c ian ian jackalmage mike contributor oldest_to_newest 104658 0 xidorn+w3c 2014-04-29 05:47:55 +0000 Currently, in Rendering/Lists section, there are many declaractions of list-style-type property. Since in the new spec "CSS counter styles" [COUNTERS], all builtin styles except none and decimal can be overridden by author, I think it might be better to make it clear that whether author-defined counter style with the same name used here could affect these style declaraction of html elements. [COUNTERS] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-counter-styles/ 104729 1 ian 2014-04-29 21:39:21 +0000 Tab, what should I do here? 104733 2 jackalmage 2014-04-29 21:51:50 +0000 Xidorn's just asking for an informative note that, say, replacing the 'upper-alpha' counter style will affect rendering of <ol type=A> elements. Nothing needs to be done normatively. 104756 3 xidorn+w3c 2014-04-29 23:09:43 +0000 (In reply to Tab Atkins Jr. from comment #2) > Xidorn's just asking for an informative note that, say, replacing the > 'upper-alpha' counter style will affect rendering of <ol type=A> elements. > > Nothing needs to be done normatively. Not exactly. I supposed that author-defined counter styles would not affect the 'type' attribute. Therefore I was suprised when I saw the behavior is defined using CSS. Though, I'd welcome the behavior that author-defineds affect, since it could simplify the impl. 104759 4 jackalmage 2014-04-29 23:13:33 +0000 The HTML spec defines <ol type=A>, etc in terms of a CSS list-style-type rule, so the fact that "@counter-style upper-alpha {...}" would affect that seems to fall out of what's defined. 104835 5 ian 2014-04-30 18:12:50 +0000 It seems weird that you can redefine spec-defined counter types, but that's your call. If it's going to be allowed, I agree that it makes sense that it would affect <ol type>. 105132 6 ian 2014-05-05 23:25:39 +0000 I guess I'll add a note to the <ol> section saying that this relies on CSS and you can override the counter styles which will indirectly affect the type="" attribute, just like you could directly override it with list-style-type. 105133 7 xidorn+w3c 2014-05-05 23:30:25 +0000 (In reply to Ian 'Hixie' Hickson from comment #6) > I guess I'll add a note to the <ol> section saying that this relies on CSS > and you can override the counter styles which will indirectly affect the > type="" attribute, just like you could directly override it with > list-style-type. That's fine. One problem I am aware of is that, the word "override" has a different meaning in counter styles spec. To avoid confusion, I suggest using "redefine" before "the counter styls" instead. 105218 8 ian 2014-05-06 18:30:29 +0000 Thanks. Will do. 109148 9 ian 2014-07-21 21:21:48 +0000 Added. (Change will be in a future update to the spec, rolled up with some other fixes. I'm debugging my pipeline today and so can't publish just this change right now.)