How to colour the list-style-type auto-generated numbers?

Question

I\'m using the following list:

    
This is the first footnote...
    &         


        

Answer 1

I recently had a similar problem and found an article, Styling ordered list numbers, that describes a smart way of achieving styling of the list markers without using additional tags. The article basically says that for an ordered list:

The key is using CSS generated content to create and insert the counter numbers after removing the default numbering from the list.

For more details please see the article.