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Asked: 2026-05-13T21:47:42+00:00

I am trying to create an ordered list on IE7 but for some reason

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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.

http://www.arraystudio.com/as-workshop/make-ol-list-start-from-number-different-than-1-using-css.html

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  1. Editorial Team

    This SSCCE works fine in all browsers from IE6 and up (IE6/7/8, FF2/3, Safari3, Chrome4, Opera9).

    <!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>SO question 2401705</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <ol>
            <li>Item 1
            <li>Item 2
        </ol>
    </body>
</html>

    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 the ol to zero. This way they will get out of the view. The following SSCCE demonstrates it. It indeed fails in IE6/7.

    <!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>SO question 2401705 - IE6/7 problem</title>
        <style>ol { margin: 0; }</style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <ol>
            <li>Item 1
            <li>Item 2
        </ol>
    </body>
</html>

    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.

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