A way to declare ties in ordered lists

[simevidas]

What problem are you trying to solve?

Sometimes in an ordered list, two or more items are tied. You usually represent this by repeating the ordinal number for the tied items. For example:

1. Germany
2. Italy
2. France
4. Spain
5. England

In this example, Italy and France are tied, so they’re both in second place, but Spain is in fourth place because there are three items above it.

What solutions exist today?

Currently, you have to manually set value attributes:

<ol>
  <li>Germany</li>
  <li>Italy</li>
  <li value=2>France</li>
  <li value=4>Spain</li>
  <li>England</li>
</ol>

How would you solve it?

It would be useful if you could just declare a value repetition on France via something like value=repeat:

<ol>
  <li>Germany</li>
  <li>Italy</li>
  <li value=repeat>France</li>
  <li>Spain</li>
  <li>England</li>
</ol>

This would instruct the browser to repeat the value, so France would get Italy’s value (2.), but the list-item counter would not be affected, so Spain would get 4. normally. In other words, value=repeat would tell the browser to not render the list-item counter value for that item but to instead render the same value that the preceding item has.

Anything else?

Related Mastodon discussion: https://mastodon.social/@simevidas/112689323328071444