Name

START — NN all IE all HTML all

Synopsis

START=”number"

Optional

Assigns a custom starting number for the sequence of items in the OL element. This is convenient when a sequence of items must be disturbed by running body text. Although the value is a number, the corresponding Arabic numeral, Roman numeral, or alphabet letter is used to render the value. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0 in favor of a set of counter-style attributes specified in the CSS2 final recommendation.

Example

<OL START=5> ...</OL>

Value

Any positive integer.

Default

None.

Object Model Reference

IE

[window.]document.all.elementID.start

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