Numbering section headings

To number section headings, you can add the following declarations to the page MediaWiki:Common.css:

The numbering created in common.css is not applied in the PDF export!

This technique only works in wikis that have don't include any books, as otherwise the numbering in the page sections of the book pages will no longer be displayed correctly.

#mw-content-text {
    counter-reset: h2counter;
}
 #mw-content-text h1 {
    counter-reset: h2counter;
}
 #mw-content-text h2 {
    counter-reset: h3counter;
}
 #mw-content-text #toc h2#mw-toc-heading {
    counter-reset: h2counter 0
}
 #mw-content-text h3 {
    counter-reset: h4counter;
}
 #mw-content-text h4 {
    counter-reset: h5counter;
}
 #mw-content-text h5 {
    counter-reset: h6counter;
}
 #mw-content-text h2:before, article #mw-content-text h2:before {
     content: counter(h2counter) ".\0000a0\0000a0";
     counter-increment: h2counter;
}
 #mw-content-text #toc h2#mw-toc-heading:before {
    content:""
}
 #mw-content-text h3:before {
     content: counter(h2counter) "." counter(h3counter) ".\0000a0";
     counter-increment: h3counter;
}
 #mw-content-text h4:before {
     content: counter(h2counter) "." counter(h3counter) "." counter(h4counter) ".\0000a0\0000a0";
     counter-increment: h4counter;
}
 #mw-content-text h5:before {
     content: counter(h2counter) "." counter(h3counter) "." counter(h4counter)"."counter(h5counter) ".\0000a0\0000a0";
     counter-increment: h5counter;
}
 #mw-content-text h6:before {
     content: counter(h2counter) "." counter(h3counter) "." counter(h4counter)"."counter(h5counter)"." counter(h6counter) ".\0000a0\0000a0";
     counter-increment: h6counter; 
}     
 #mw-content-text h2 {
     padding-left:1.3em;
     text-indent:-1.3em 
}
 #mw-content-text h3 {
     padding-left:1.8em;
     text-indent:-1.8em 
}
 #mw-content-text h4 {
     padding-left:2.8em;
     text-indent:-2.8em 
}
 #mw-content-text h5 {
     padding-left:3.4em;
     text-indent:-3.4em 
}
 .mw-editsection{
    position:absolute;
     padding-left:1.5em
}
 #bodyContent .sectionanchors-button{
    margin:-0.8em 0 0 -1.2em;
     max-width:1em;
     font-size:0.5em
}

/*Keine Nummerierung bei */
 #mw-content-text .sectionflex h2::before, #mw-content-text .sectionflex h3::before, #mw-content-text .bs-social-entity-wrapper h3::before {
    content:none
}
 #mw-content-text .mw-category h2::before, #mw-content-text .mw-category-generated h2::before,#mw-content-text .mw-category h3::before, #mw-content-text .mw-category-generated h3::before, #mw-content-text .bs-tag-pagetemplates h2::before{
    content:none
}
 .ns-special #mw-content-text h2::before, .ns-special #mw-content-text h3::before {
    content:none;
}
 #mw-content-text .bs-tag-pagetemplates h2:before, #mw-content-text .bs-tag-pagetemplates h3::before, #mw-content-text .bs-tag-pagetemplates h6::before {
    content:none;
}
 article #glossar h2::before, article #glossar h3::before {
    content:none;
}

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