# Formatting \<ol\> shouldn't be this hard!

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-ol-shouldnt-be-this-hard/166065
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [October 16, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-ol-shouldnt-be-this-hard/166065 "2005-10-16T18:20:30Z")
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### Author: ![puzzleMeister](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/puzzlemeister/32/1535_2.png) [@puzzleMeister](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/puzzleMeister)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-ol-shouldnt-be-this-hard/166065/1 "2005-10-16T18:20:30Z")

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Hey all -

I’m working on transferring an FAQ list from txt to html, and the topic list is laid out as:

```auto

1. Preface
  1.1 Notes
  1.2 Legal
	1.2.1 Credits
	1.2.2 Notice

```

et cetera. I would think that there’s some way to get an \<ol\> tag to display this progression (1, 1.1, 1.1.1, etc.) but can’t seem to find it. Any thoughts?