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9.3

Ordered list with underline and parenthesis

Asked by BjornEM in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Tags: CSS, ordered list, text-decoration

I am looking for a way to use CSS to create two types of ordered lists. One of the lists should have the number underlined, and the other list should surround the number with parenthesis such as (a), (b), (c).

For the underline list I have tried text-decoration: underline and it works, but the problem is that it underlines all the text in the list item. I have tried to prevent this by surrounding the text in the list item with <span id="Ordinary">some text</span> where Ordinary sets text-decoration to none but it does not work. As you can see I have also tried using a specialised p.class.

I can add any text attribute, such as overline or set text color to red but I can't seem to override (subtract) settings made higher up. Is it possible to create a list where the numbering is underlined, but the rest of the text normal?

With regards to the other list, using parenthesis, I have found a code snippet that will accomplish something close to what I want, but it doesn't seem to work in IE7 which is annoying since IE7 is a requirement. Is there any other way, a work around, for IE? 
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<html>
	<head>
		<title>Enter the title of your XHTML document here</title>
		<style type="text/css">
			ol.withroman {list-style-type:lower-roman}
			ol.withunderscore {list-style-type:lower-alpha; text-decoration: underline}
			
			ol.parenthesis li {list-style-type: none;}
			ol.parenthesis li:before {display: marker;content: counter(counter) ") ";counter-increment: counter;counter-reset: none;width: 2em;float: left;}
			ol.parenthesis {counter-reset: counter;}
			
			p.red {text-decoration: none; color: red}
			
			#Ordinary {text-decoration: none; font-size:50%}
		</style>
	</head>
	<body>
		<ol class="withroman">
			<li>Step one</li>
			<li>Step two</li>
		</ol>
 
		<ol class="withunderscore">
			<li>Step one</li>
			<li><span id="Ordinary">Step two</span></li>
			<li><p class="red">Step three</p></li>
		</ol>
 
		<ol class="parenthesis">
			<li>Step one</li>
			<li>Step two</li>
		</ol>
 
	</body>
</html>
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The result in Firefox 3
The result in Firefox 3
 
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Zones: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Tags: CSS, ordered list, text-decoration
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