Issue with bulleted lists

WebsiteGuy.com · November 2011

Does anyone have any idea why the bullets on this example page are not showing correctly? All bullets should be the same justification. http://www.websitedraft.info/bullets.

Thank you,
Corey

bman · December 2011

Hi Corey,

Well, each line needs to be within it's own li /li tags, not everything in one big single list.

Hopefully that makes sense.

Later,

Bill (the info guy)

WebsiteGuy.com · December 2011

Do you recommend adding line spaces between each line?

Corey

bman · December 2011

Hi Corey,

No, I don't recommend that. Instead, for a bit more control, you can enter some simple css to add some margin-bottom to each li element.
For your example page, it would be ul.disc li {margin-bottom: 10px} Just put this in the Page Info > Header > CSS tab.

Adjust px amount as desired.

Later,

Bill (the info guy)

WebsiteGuy.com · December 2011

This issue seems to happen on every website I have lists on. When I type the list, and then go to format then list and choose bullets, this occurs where the first line is separated from the others. Any ideas on how to have this work when I do lists?

Thank you for the help!
Corey

bman · December 2011

Well,

Make sure you are entering the list text in a styled text page, otherwise you will have to enter the html code as well.
Ie. <ul><li>a</li><li>b</li><li>etc...</li></ul>

Hope that helps.

Bill (the info guy)

WebsiteGuy.com · December 2011

Thanks Bill! If I am in a text stack and highlight the text and choose bulleted list, why does this not occur correctly?

Corey

Ed Brenner · December 2011

Did you "copy& paste" the list text in from another source?

If so you need to paste it as "plain text" as not to bring over any formatting from the other source.

WebsiteGuy.com · December 2011

Hi Ed-
I always copy and paste as plain text. For the life of me, I cannot get lists to display properly.

I try pasting into textedit first as well. No luck.

Corey

Ed Brenner · December 2011

I never use the built-in option for creating lists. I always go the "good old fashioned" way and build mine "by hand".

WebsiteGuy.com · December 2011

I just did that by hand and it works fine. Would be nice to use the built in one as a time saver!

Thanks Ed!

Corey

JanSteele · January 2012

"By hand" - do you mean using html?

bman · January 2012

Yes-using html, Similar to my post #5.

Later,

Bill (the info guy)

JanSteele · January 2012

I needed to have a fairly long text page with nested lists. I tried doing it with the RW Lists dialogue, but it seems that it doesn't support nested lists?

So I did it in Dreamweaver. I copied the code over into the Styled Text Page in RW, selected it all, and clicked "Ignore Formatting"

It's mostly worked except for one nested list which isn't indented - although the numbers are correct. It looked fine in Dreamweaver.

This is my first attempt at designing a site in RW, and although most things seem reasonably straightforward this one doesn't. Isn't there a better way of doing nested lists in RW?

Sundog · January 2012

I can see what the issue is. The first line is:

[li] then text here

The rest are

&bull; then text here.

I will go and look in RW and try to duplicate this

Sundog · January 2012

In RW and Stacks text stack I get perfect lists.

The code from RW is:

[ul class="circle"][li]The small red fox jumped over the fence[/li][li]The small red fox jumped over the fence[/li][li]The small red fox jumped over the fence[/li][li]The small red fox jumped over the fence[/li][li]The small red fox jumped over the fence[/li][li]The small red fox jumped over the fence[/li][li]The small red fox jumped over the fence[/li][/ul]

Are you using RW5? I use to get the issue you have described in RW4.

Your DW code is not right either with the li and the bullet code.

lanky8804 · January 2012

Try selecting all the text and remove all formatting, CMD+ALT+.

Then highlight your text and add bullet points again.

vermaram2011 · January 2012

This is nice post .Thanks for the sharing the post.Well, each line needs to be within it's own li /li tags, not everything in one big single list.Thanks
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