<ol>
<li>test</li>
<li>test</li>
</ol>
will show as:
- test
- test
I want to have numbers coloured and text black!
I can edit the css, but I do not have access to the HTML.
<ol>
<li>test</li>
<li>test</li>
</ol>
will show as:
I want to have numbers coloured and text black!
I can edit the css, but I do not have access to the HTML.
The CSS spec gives an example of doing just this. Unfortunately, while it works on Firefox 3, it doesn't appear to work on IE7:
<html>
<head>
<style>
ol { counter-reset: item; }
ol li { display: block; }
ol li:before {
content: counter(item) ". ";
counter-increment: item;
color: red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
Not sure if this works but i think it should:
<li style='color: red;'><span style='color:black;'>test</span></li>
edit
If you cannot edit the html then I'm afraid it's not possible. If you could add javascript to the HTML (once in the head) then you could do it like this:
$(document).ready( function() {
$('ol li').wrapInner('<span class="black"> </span>').addClass('red');
});
You will need the jQuery library for this.
Then in your CSS just set up a red and a black class with color:red/black declarations.
Here's a solution that also wraps the text for each list item left-aligned below the first line (and not below the list number):
HTML
<ol class="GreenNumbers">
<li>Long text that might wrap onto a second line.</li>
<li>Long text that might wrap onto a second line.</li>
<li>Long text that might wrap onto a second line.</li>
</ol>
CSS
.GreenNumbers {
list-style-type: none;
}
.GreenNumbers ol {
margin-left: 2em;
}
.GreenNumbers li {
counter-increment: count-me;
}
.GreenNumbers li::before {
content: counter(count-me) ". ";
display: block;
position: relative;
max-width: 0px;
max-height: 0px;
left: -1.3em;
top: .05em;
color: #008000;
font-weight: bold;
}
This should do what you're looking for:
http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/67894
HTML
<ol>
<li>1 some text here</li>
<li>2 some more text that can span longer than one line</li>
</ol>
CSS
ol { list-style: none; padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;}
li:first-letter { float: left;
font-size: ??;
color: white;
background: orange;
line-height: 1.0; }
Except you'll want to change the color and background according to your design.
This next one is overkill, but gives you a great deal of information on how to style lists:
http://print.wordpress.com/2006/02/22/css-beautifully-numbered-lists/
-Adam
@kdgregory 's code worked for me, but it affected my bulleted lists. I changed li
to ol li
to prevent the bullet items from being affected. Like so:
ol { counter-reset: item }
ol li { display: block }
ol li:before { content: counter(item) ". "; counter-increment: item; color: red; }
P.S. I also prefer to use uppercase in CSS for elements like BODY
so I can easily distinguish it from classes .body
and ids #body
.
From an answer to a similar question I found elsewhere:
Just as a side note, CSS3 will allow easy styling of list markers with the ::marker pseudo-element.
But for now it looks like you'd have to add the <span>
to your html.
To expand a bit on what others said, as well as additional question clarifications, there is no built-in way of doing this from CSS w/o touching the HTML. If you are looking to keep the HTML as clean and semantic as possible, I would do the styling using javascript, probably with a library like jQuery, to adjust the DOM so that the css can be more effective.
I would caution, however, using color to convey info. I'm not sure what the purpose of the colored numbers is, but using color to display information leaves colorblind users out of the loop and is a big no no for accessibility.
too bad you can't edit the html... how about js?
<script>
var x = document.getElementsByTagName('li');
for (i=0; i<x.length; i++) { x[i].innerHTML ="<span>" + x[i].innerHTML + "</span>" }
// or with jQuery
$('.li').each(function(){this.innerHTML="<span>" + this.innerHTML + "</span>" })
</script>
<style>
li {color: #DDD;}
li span {color: black;}
</style>
if not, maybe a good-enough solution would be
ol {background-color: #DDD;}
li {background-color: white;}
It's a bit late for this but I want to share it with the community, took me a long while to do this. I found a solution to change the OL numbers background and color that works on every browser. Requires an extra tag inside the li
.
See it here
html:
<ol>
<li>1 A long bullet here it is long to show how it behaves on a second line</li>
<li>2 A long bullet here it is long to show how it behaves on a second line</li>
<li>3 A long bullet here it is long to show how it behaves on a second line</li>
<li>4 A long bullet here it is long to show how it behaves on a second line</li>
<li>5 A long bullet here it is long to show how it behaves on a second line</li>
</ol>
css:
ol { list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; text-indent:0px; margin-left:5px;} ol li {color:#666;} ol li:first-letter {color:#69A8DE; padding-right:5px; margin-left:-15px;}
This is easy, as long as you don't want to assign different colours to different list item numbers. No HTML modifications necessary. Might not work in 100% of browsers though..
ol {color:red;}
ol li {color:black;}