Ordered, numbered table columns?

[curtiss]

Any thoughts on an easy way to create a table in which the first column is an ordered list? In other words, I would be making a table that looks somewhat like:

========================================================================================
=   1 = This is a test           = This is more test           = This is the end       =

=   2 = This is a second row     = This is more test           = This is the end       =

=   3 = This is a third row      = This is more test           = This is the end       =
========================================================================================

Obviously, you can't wrap an ordered list around a table. I've tried styling my first column as "list-item" and giving it a "list-style" of "decimal", but that didn't work.

Any thoughts? The table I'm working with has five columns (including the numbers) and will have a varying number of rows. I really don't want to have to try to put static numbers inside the columns. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Allen]

Is the data dynamically generated? If so, could you loop it to get the right number?

What about doing it as css with no table? I guess then you still have the numbering issue.

[curtiss]

Actually, to be very specific about the situation, I am placing the table inside of a WYSIWYG editor and allowing people to create checklists. I wanted the numbers to be automatically populated (which they are if they are part of an ordered list in the WYSIWYG editor), but the table has to have four input columns (task description, person responsible, deadline and "done").

I ended up just setting it up normally inside the WYSIWYG editor, and I'm going to rely on the users to insert the numbers themselves. It just seems like there should be a good way to use an ordered list as a column inside a table, but there doesn't appear to be a valid way to do so as of yet.