title: A CSS-styleable countdown timer?
body: <p>I imagined this would be super-simple, but it is eluding me so far.  I would like to know how I can implement a timer that counts down to a specific date and can be styled with CSS.</p>
  
  <p>Specifically, I have designed a background image/container and want to style the numbers so they are correctly positioned, sized, coloured and in the correct font.</p>
  
  <p>There are a raft of JS and jQuery countdown timers, but none I have found output in a manner which is easy to target with CSS.  Modifying the output strings (i.e. including div tags) only seems to break them, although my JS knowledge is not great enough to understand why (a guess, is that the scripts seem to target a certain div class and 'inject' the appropriate code.  Perhaps introducing new divs screws this up?)</p>
  
  <p>I guess my question would have to be... 'what is the easiest way to implement a countdown to a specific date, which can be styled with CSS?', although if you know of an existing plug in that does this, I will love you forever!</p>