Numbering of Headings does not work after export to PDF

Question

Hello, I am trying to get numberings for some headings, but for some reason it does not work. I am using this css code:

body {
        counter-reset: h2counter;
    }
    h1 {
        counter-reset: h2counter;
    }
    h2:before {
        content: counter(h2counter) ".\0000a0\0000a0";
        counter-increment: h2counter;
        counter-reset: h3counter;
    }
    h3:before {
        content: counter(h2counter) "." counter(h3counter) ".\0000a0\0000a0";
        counter-increment: h3counter;
    }

Unfortunately, it works only on first level, then it looses ability to count properly.

So the results looks like:

T 1.

T 2.

T 2.1

T 2.1.

T 2.0.1

T 3.

It simply reset counters too early. Anyway I was trying the code somewhere else, and code is OK, the problem might be in proper CSS selectors? Could anyone give me a hand? Thanks.

unknown · Answer

Any idea someone? I was trying to find the solution on this website, but it seems that I am not the first one nor last one. My though was that the whole Confluence documentation is a tree structure which is converted to <Hx> tags. Unfortunately it seems, that only few first headings are taken in consideration. Next ones are not numbered validly.  The numbering usually starts from 0 again - because there is some kind of inconsistency in generating process.

unknown · Answer

Yeah, and do you have any idea how to fix the problem with missing headings? I thought, the tree hierarchy of whole Confluence is converted into <Hx> tags depends on the depth in the structure. But it seems it is not generating headings at all. Do you have any clue how to fix it?

Steffen Heller · Answer

The CSS code looks correct. And yes, if headings are missing, the numbering will be mixed up as well.