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From the Field Desk of C. M. Helmer

Notes

HTML Reversed Ordered List

By C. M. Helmer

I’ve learned that you can reverse the sequence of numbers in an HTML ordered list (<ol>) with the HTML5 attribute, reversed. As in:

<ol reversed>
	<li>French hens</li>
	<li>Turtledoves</li>
	<li>Partridge in a pear tree</li>
</ol>

Which gives:

  1. French hens
  2. Turtledoves
  3. Partridge in a pear tree

There is also the attribute start to specify the start value, useful to resume the numbering of a list after it is interrupted by another block element.