Ordered List Starting Not at 1

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  kellymconnolly · Member · May 6, 2013 at 6:15 am

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  I’m trying to start an ordered list not at 1, and when I plug value=”31″ into the LI code, it LOOKS like it works while I’m writing, but the minute I hit Preview or Save, the numbers go right back to starting at 1. Is this just the way the theme (Confit) is programmed, or is there something wrong? Thanks!

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  kraftbj · Staff · May 9, 2013 at 2:04 am

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  Hi Kelly,

  Thanks for reporting this. This is actually an issue with WordPress itself (both .com and all sites running .org on other servers). As a security precaution, only allowed HTML elements (like <li>) or attributes (like value="31").

  The <li> element, currently, only allows the align attribute. I have submitted a ticket to report this issue and submitted a patch that would allow the value attribute.

  You can follow along at http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24293 or I’ll update this support thread if action is taken.

  Cheers!

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  kraftbj · Staff · May 24, 2013 at 8:27 pm

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  Hi Kelly,

  I’m still waiting on this patch to be approved, but as an alternative, have you tried setting the start attribute in the ol?

  For example, instead of

  <ol>
  <li value="31">text</li>
  </ol>

  trying
  `<ol start=”31″>
  <li>text</li>
  </ol> `

  That’ll start the ordered list at 31. If individual list items are going to skip around in number, this won’t work, but in case it helped!