<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <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 id="two"/></div> <div>00</div> </body> </html>