<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>CSS Test: Implied counter scopes with no 'counter-increment' or 'counter-reset'</title> <link rel="author" title="L. David Baron" href="http://dbaron.org/"> <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; } #one:before { content: counter(one) } #two:before { content: counter(two) } </style> </head> <body> <p>The following should be identical:</p> <div><span id="one"></span><span id="two"></span></div> <div>00</div> </body> </html>