<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>CSS Test: Counter scope and nesting on :before</title> <link rel="author" title="L. David Baron" href="http://dbaron.org/"> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#scope"> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#counters"> <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"> <style type="text/css"> body { white-space: nowrap; } span:before { counter-increment: c 1; content: "B" counters(c,".") "-" } span:after { counter-increment: c 1; content: "A" counters(c,".") "-" } body, span#reset:before { counter-reset: c 0; } </style> </head> <body> <p>The following two lines should be the same:</p> <div><span><span id="reset"><span></span></span></span></div> <div>B1-B1.1-B1.2-A1.3-A1.4-A2-</div> </body> </html>