Well, I really thought CSS so I went looking and found it http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-lists-3/#counters-without-boxes

So with current perlmonks feature of a "code prefix" using <i></i> you get this chunk of html/css :)

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <style type="text/css"> pre.code div.codeblock tt.codetext { counter-reset: codeLineCounter; } pre.code i::before { counter-increment: codeLineCounter; content: counter(codeLineCounter,decimal-leading-zero) ": "; } </style> </head> <body> <pre class="code"><div class='codeblock'><tt class='codetext'><i></i># +!/usr/bin/perl -- <i></i>use strict; <i></i>use warnings; <i></i>print "Hello <span class="line-breaker"> <font color="red">+</font></span> world!\n"; <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i> <i></i>1; </tt></div></pre>

In reply to Re^5: Change default style sheet: add line numbers (counter-increment: codeLineCounter;) by Anonymous Monk
in thread Change default style sheet: add line numbers by roboticus

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