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Where are all the bullets and numbers for my lists?
This is a CSS reset issue that is deploying now. For historical reasons, we allow for Stacks to be configurable with 2 different CSS resets. Our testing environment had one. Production had the other. ...
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votes
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The styling for lists (numbered and bulleted) got switched to None
Ok, this is all fixed up. Thanks for posting it! This was related to some removal of "unused" CSS. Just a bit of housecleaning.
Here's the related issue over on Stacks. Basically, we have ...
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11
votes
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"How to Format/Tag" uses "►", creating less-accessible "lists"
This has been finished. The old ugly arrows are now gone on both the the tag formatting and mod private message info boxes.
plain old bullet points
now used more consistently
good riddance, dingus!
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9
votes
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Numbered lists display fine after newline only if the first item starts with 1; otherwise, they need an extra newline in between
This is a CommonMark rule exception for ordered list markers.
5.2 List items
The following rules define list items:
Exceptions:
When the first list item in a list interrupts a paragraph—that is, ...
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votes
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The "Describe why you would make a good moderator" box uses "►", creating less-accessible "lists"
This has been fixed. I replaced the arrows with a list on both places you've mentioned. I believe those are the only ones.
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9
votes
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Incorrect rendering in all but answer list
This is status-bydesign. The issue is that the Markdown text renders differently in CommonMark (the new Markdown renderer) vs. how it rendered in the prior Markdown->HTML converter SE used.
The ...
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feature request: make numbered list formatting less math unfriendly
Is this really necessary? The difference between
1
and
1 · 1
is (at least to me) quite obvious: above, the dot is shifted to the left (so it belongs to the first 1) and it has the same baseline as ...
GlorfindelMod
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7
votes
Add parenthesis as an accepted Markdown ordered list delimiter
Parenthesis-delimited lists using 1) now work on Meta Stack Exchange:
We're switching to CommonMark
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7
votes
How to write nested numbered lists
This is quite old but there I go. What worked for me was to tab once after each line that is followed by another line.
Item
1.1. Sub item
1.2. Sub item
Item
2.1. Sub item
2.2. Sub item
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Bug in Stack Overflow Markdown rendering when code follows a list
The system is unintuitive but I believe it works as designed. There’s a second meaning to indentation: “continue the list above” and this takes priority over indentation being interpreted as starting ...
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Does <Shift> + <Enter> create lists automatically if the line starts with a dash or a bullet?
Yup, it does. The source code of the editor is available here on Google Code Archive and the Markdown.Editor.js file contains the following lines:
// Auto-indent on shift-enter
util.addEvent(inputBox, ...
GlorfindelMod
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How to write nested numbered lists
Nested bulleted lists, deeper levels:
---- leave here an empty row
* A item, first level - no space in front the bullet character
* Aa item, second level - 1 space is enough
* Aaa item, ...
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How to write nested numbered lists
Great question; here is one way:
Markdown Numbered SubList
<ul>
<li>1. First Item</li>
<li>2. Second Item
<ul>
<li>2.1 Second Item Sub Item 1 </li>...
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Add parenthesis as an accepted Markdown ordered list delimiter
CommonMark allows for
1) parenthesis
2) delimited
3) ordered
4) lists
https://commonmark.org/help/
Will CommonMark be adopted for SE?
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5
votes
Code block is not properly formatted when placed immediately after a list item
This just got bumped. I'm looking through the answers. All the workarounds are hacky. So you should probably go with the following if you want the most semantically benign workaround:
- A list item.
...
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Unenclosed <li> element without <ul> or <ol> creates bullet point outside text area
Eh. Using plain HTML within posts is mostly supported, but not really encouraged - especially not when there are Markdown equivalents. If you choose to use HTML instead anyway, it's on you to make ...
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votes
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Stack Exchange Markdown rendering shows incorrect list spacing
This has been completed as part of new post formatting changes.
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Stack Exchange Markdown rendering shows incorrect list spacing
It's been like that since forever. :-(
Either shrug and live with it, or avoid authoring complicated lists -- either one level of list with optional list paragraphs, or two levels of lists but ...
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votes
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Markdown, nested list : how to incorporate a nested list between two lines of a same list element
I think this works:
1. test
1. test
2. test
test
which produces
test
test
test
test
So the trick is just to add some indentation (but not too much, or it will be interpreted as a code ...
GlorfindelMod
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4
votes
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Unordered list is shown as nested in the on-site rendering but flat in the post editor
The Markdown is messed up so the HTML result gets messed up as well. At least the server-side renderer does a better job at recovering.
Fix it by editing the list: remove the leading space and give ...
reneMod
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Post formatting is not accurate for numbered lists of code blocks. Is this a bug?
I seem to remember that putting the code fence on the same line as the list marker, but indenting the rest of the block to match the first character of the fence, works:
1. ```
{
label: `Baz ${...
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votes
Separator bar in numbered list breaks formatting
Different web browsers render slightly different results:
Google Chrome (110.0)
line appears between the first two items
Firefox (110.0)
line appears between the first two items
second and third ...
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votes
Spoiler in list hides list number
This seems like a bug in WebKit / Blink - they're applying the child selector for the first child of the list element (.spoiler:not(:hover)>*) to the list marker.
Note that if the spoiler isn't ...
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votes
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Numbered list misaligned when I use intermediate bullet points
I can
Make
Such
Type
Of
Lists
For that
Add an extra line after the - bulletin before continuing the number bulletin
And
Align the numbered bulletins without any padding in the left.
You added ...
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votes
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Empty strings within a list ignored in web, but not in app
This will be fixed for the iOS app in 1.6.2.1.
It's kind of a weird rule with funky edges.
This paragraph has a normal margin below it.
Code
This paragraph has no margin below it.
Code
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1
vote
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Lists using #) instead of #. break on render, but not preview, for this old post
This problem is caused by the #) style not working before the Commonmark migration. Since this particular post hadn't been edited since the migration, it hadn't been rendered with the new formatting. ...
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1
vote
Bug in Stack Overflow Markdown rendering when code follows a list
Bracket your code with lines of three backticks. If you specify the language on the first such line, you will also get syntax-based coloring for that language (in Stack Overflow).
List item One
List ...
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vote
Bug in Stack Overflow Markdown rendering when code follows a list
Try using 7 spaces:
One
Two
Three
code
Or, as raw:
Try using 7 spaces:
1. One
2. Two
3. Three
code
This lines the code up with the list. To "reset" it back to the left border, ...
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