On 02/13/2014 02:34 PM, Always Learning wrote: > Firefox used to render > > <ol type="a"> > <li>.................</li> > > as > > a. ............... > > > Now it does not. The HTML 4.1 spec at > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/lists.html#type-values > > says use CSS instead. > > These > > <ol type="a"> > <ol type="A"> > <ol type="i"> > > used to work in the Centos 5 supplied Firefox. Now OL produce digits > instead. > > http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_ol_type.asp states > > "Differences Between HTML 4.01 and HTML5 > The type attribute of the <ol> element is no longer deprecated in > HTML5." i.e. no longer deprecated - implies it is either removed and not allowed or supported any more, or it has moved from being deprecated to valid .... poor choice of wording. just beware - w3schools.com is not authoritative on www / html / css - they hold a useful domain name that google insists on showing at or near the top of every search. > If something is "deprecated" it is supposed to work until it is > withdrawn or cancelled. > > Is Firefox's inability to render <ol type="a"> a bug or a very annoying > irritation especially as I have hundreds of hand-coded pages using it ? > > :-( >