CSS Counters

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CSS Counters



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CSS counters are "variables" maintained by CSS whose values can
be incremented by CSS rules (to track how many times they are used). Counters
let you adjust the appearance of content based on its placement in the document.




Automatic Numbering With Counters


CSS counters are like "variables". The variable values can be incremented by CSS rules
(which will
track how many times they are used).


To work with CSS counters we will use the following properties:



  • counter-reset - Creates or resets a counter


  • counter-increment - Increments a counter value


  • content - Inserts generated
    content


  • counter() or counters() function - Adds the
    value of a counter to an element

To use a CSS counter, it must first be created with counter-reset.


The following example creates a counter for the page (in the body selector),
then increments the counter value for each <h2> element and adds "Section <value of the counter>:"
to the beginning of each <h2> element:



Example



body
    counter-reset: section;


h2::before
    counter-increment: section;
   
content: "Section " counter(section) ": ";

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Nesting Counters



The following example creates one counter for the page (section) and one
counter for each <h1> element (subsection). The "section" counter will be
counted for each <h1> element with "Section <value of the
section counter
>.", and the "subsection" counter will be counted
for each <h2> element with "<value of the section counter>.<value of the
subsection counter
>":



Example



body
    counter-reset: section;


h1
   
counter-reset: subsection;


h1::before
    counter-increment:
section;
    content: "Section " counter(section) ". ";


h2::before
   
counter-increment: subsection;
    content:
counter(section) "." counter(subsection) " ";

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A counter can also be useful to make outlined lists because a new
instance of a counter is automatically created in child elements. Here we use the
counters() function to insert a string between different levels of nested
counters:




Example



ol
    counter-reset: section;
   
list-style-type: none;



li::before
    counter-increment: section;
   
content: counters(section,".") " ";

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 CSS Counter Properties










Property Description
content Used with the ::before and ::after pseudo-elements, to insert generated content
counter-increment Increments one or more counter values
counter-reset Creates or resets one or more counters


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