is there a way to append leading zero's to an ordered number list? (01 or 001 as opposed to just 1)

Question

by default when you use the

tag to create an ordered list you get something like:

1. . . 10. . . 100

...but is there a way to change

Answer 1

You need to use JavaScript for this.

function addzeros(number, length) {
    var num = '' + number;
    while (num.length < length) {
        num = '0' + num;
    }
    return num;
}

alert(addzeros(100, 5))

Example usage
addzeros(1,3) will give you 001
addzeros(10,3) will give you 010
addzeros(100,0) will give you 100
addzeros(100,6) will give you 000100

Check working example at http://jsfiddle.net/ED8Hj/