156202 - no way to get bold numbers/letters in an <OL>

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 38174

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Jamie Zawinski]

In NS4, you could do <B><LI></B> to get the 1/2/3/A/B/C to be bold.  That no
longer works in Mozilla: now you get free line breaks.  For example:

    <P><OL>
      <B><LI> This heading has a bold "1."</B>

        <P> ...which is as expected.
        <P>

      <B><LI></B> This heading has a linebreak after the "2."

        <P> ...which is not what I want.  I want the "2." to be bold,
         and the text after it on the line to be non-bold.
        <P>

      <B><LI> This</B> heading has a linebreak after the "This."

        <P> ...which is clearly not what I wanted.
        <P>

    </OL>

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The markup in question is invalid... And the rest is a duplicate of "[LIST] List
numbers and bullets ignore FONT changes"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 38174 ***

Comment 2

[Marcus Campbell]

Verified.

Comment 3

[Jamie Zawinski]

I don't care whether the markup is invalid, it used to work in every previous
version of the browser.

How do I get the effect of a bold number and non-bold text on the same line?
I don't see a way to do it without the markup I used.

Comment 4

[Marcus Campbell]

However, Mozilla _does_ care if the markup is invalid.

What you're looking to do can (theoretically) be achieved using CSS2 Markers:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/generate.html#q11

Example
-------

<style type="text/css">
li:before { 
	display: marker;
	content: counter(counter) " ";
	counter-increment: counter;
	font-weight: bold;
	width: 6em;
	text-align: center;
}
</style>
<ol>
	<li>This is the first item.</li>
	<li>This is the second item.</li>
	<li>This is the third item.</li>
</ol>

...but Mozilla doesn't support CSS2 counters yet (see ye olde bug 3247), so it
really comes down to how badly you want to see bold markers.

Comment 5

[Jamie Zawinski]

So what you're saying is:

 - we won't support the old way of accomplishing what you want,
   for ridiculous ideological reasons;

 - we don't support the new, less portable way of accomplishing
   what you want, because it's too hard;

 - so your pages look wrong, and we are redefining that to be "right".