[oXygen-user] Setting OL start value in webhelp

Scott Prentice sp14 at leximation.com
Mon Mar 17 11:33:58 CDT 2025


Is there some cool Oxygen-specific way to set the start value for an 
ordered list in webhelp?

I can assign some value in the outputclass of the <ol> in DITA, like ..

     <ol outputclass="start(3)">

Then, I can use a CSS selector to apply styling based on that value. 
Unfortunately, I'm not seeing a way to just set the "start" attribute on 
the <ol> in the HTML. There are gymnastics that can be done with various 
"counter" properties and function, but I really don't want to do that. I 
just want to be able to set a value in the DITA, and have that passed to 
the HTML (will tackle PDF as a separate effort). (Yes, I can probably 
use JavaScript, but is that really necessary?) Before I bash my head too 
much more on this, I thought that maybe there's some special Oxygen 
function or CSS property that will do this .. maybe?

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Scott





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