<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>CSS Test: content: counter(c)</title> <link rel="author" title="L. David Baron" href="http://dbaron.org/"> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#propdef-content"> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#counter"> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#counter-styles"> <style type="text/css"> body { white-space: nowrap; } #test { counter-reset: c; } #test span { counter-increment: c; } #test span:before { content: counter(c); } </style> </head> <body> <p>The following two lines should look the same:</p> <div id="test"> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> </div> <div> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 </div> </body> </html>