On Jan 23, 2008 3:18 PM, Krzysztof Żelechowski <<a href="mailto:giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl">giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Dnia 23-01-2008, Śr o godzinie 14:57 -0600, Siemova pisze:<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> Moreover, and more importantly, that would make the feature terribly<br>> inflexible. If you decided to add or remove items -- or, heaven
<br>> forbid, you wanted to (re)populate your list on-the-fly with a script<br>> -- you'd have to keep changing the start value by hand. That would be<br>> well-nigh impossible in certain situations, and I think it's a bit
<br>> unreasonable to expect.<br><br></div>It is straightforward to count the children of an ordered list element;<br>the DOM does it automatically<br>so that you need not even use a loop to achieve that.<br><br>Chris</blockquote>
<div><br><br>Ah, good. So can't that be used to set the start value in the first
place? Or is it generated via the actual process of rendering?
<br><br>If you mean that a script should be able to use that
automatically-generated value, I'm sure that's true, but there are
cases wherein the content creator doesn't have access to the script in
order to build that in. For example, the very case which inspired me to
propose this feature involved a list of items generated in reverse
order by a CMS.
<br><br>- Jason <br></div></div>