I am trying to create an ordered list on IE7 but for some reason does not work. Does anybody knows why this can be? Update
The issue is that I cant see the numbers, thanks.
Thanks.
eg.
<ol>
<li></li>
<li><li>
</ol>
Update As an example I saw this page where if you look at it on IE7 you wont see de numbers, but if you look at it on any other (but not ie) you will see the numbers.
Thanks
If you're not seeing the numbers at all, it's likely you need to set a margin or padding on the ol element, e.g.
You might also need to set
list-style: decimal;
.There's also some CSS bugs that can have a weird effect on ordered lists in older versions of IE. The symptom is usually the counter resetting to 1 for every item. Are you seeing that?
I also stumbled upon this old question. For me the solution was to remove the float:left declaration I had on my ol-tag. Posting it here in case someone finds it useful.
Example code that reproduces this IE7-behavior:
This question is old, but I felt none of the answers solved my case:
Fixes the list so that the numbers appear (don't use margin)
When list elements have either a width, or layout (? I forget), IE7 has a numbering bug and all list elements show as
1.
; this fixes that.This SSCCE works fine in all browsers from IE6 and up (IE6/7/8, FF2/3, Safari3, Chrome4, Opera9).
It even works when I tried to replace the
</ol>
by the syntactically invalid<ol>
. So, your problem lies somewhere else. You really need to elaborate the "Doesn't work" in more detail. What exactly happens? What exactly happens not? Preferably edit your question to include an SSCCE (like above) and try to ask the question the smart way.Note, in contrary to what others say, a non-closing
<li>
is syntactically valid in normal HTML. It's indeed invalid in XHTML, but I don't see any reason to use XHTML unless you're using a component based MVC framework or some other XML based tool to generate HTML pages.Update: you thus don't see the numbers. Apparently you've set the
margin
of theol
to zero. This way they will get out of the view. The following SSCCE demonstrates it. It indeed fails in IE6/7.Don't set the margin to 0. This may also be caused by a so-called CSS reset sheet. Don't use them, just remember to specify the margins for all block elements yourself.
Complete your tags and it should be fine:
You may also have to give your ordered list a margin-left to see the numbers in IE7. Try this: