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List basics
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* Lists are easy to do: ** start every line * with a star ** more stars mean *** deeper levels |
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*A newline *in a list marks the end of the list. Of course *you can *start again. |
marks the end of the list. Of course
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# Numbered lists are good ## very organized ## easy to follow |
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* You can also **break lines **like this |
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; Definition lists ; item : definition ; semicolon plus term : colon plus definition |
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* Or create mixed lists *# and nest them *#* like this *#*; definitions *#*: work: *#*; apple *#*; banana *#*: fruits |
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A blank line within a list item or between list items
(In this and the next section, numbered lists are used in examples; unnumbered lists give a corresponding result. The only difference is the possible problem of a numbered list restarting with 1 if it is interrupted by a line that is not a list item.)
A list item can not be longer than one paragraph, unless HTML tags <br><br> or <p>...</p> are used within the list item to add space. A paragraph that does not begin with the same list item as preceding lines ("#" for a numbered list, "*" for an unnumbered list) will end the list. If the list is unnumbered, starting another paragraph with "*" will appear to continue the list, but if the list is numbered, the next paragraph which begins with "#" will start the list numbering over again from 1.
For a list with items of more than one paragraph long, adding a blank line between items may be necessary to avoid confusion.
Continuing a list item after a sub-item
In HTML, a list item may contain several sublists, not necessarily adjacent; thus there may be parts of the list item not only before the first sublist, but also between sublists, and after the last one; however, in wiki-syntax, sublists follow the same rules as sections of a page: the only possible part of the list item not in sublists is before the first sublist.
In the case of an unnumbered first-level list in wikitext code this limitation can be overcome by splitting the list into multiple lists; indented text between the partial lists may visually serve as part of a list item after a sublist; however, this may give, depending on CSS, a blank line before and after each list, in which case, for uniformity, every first-level list item could be made a separate list.
Numbered lists illustrate that what should look like one list may, for the software, consist of multiple lists; unnumbered lists give a corresponding result, except that the problem of restarting with 1 is not applicable.
<ol> <li>list item A1 <ol> <li>list item B1</li> <li>list item B2</li> </ol>continuing list item A1 </li> <li>list item A2</li> </ol> |
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#list item A1 ##list item B1 ##list item B2 #:continuing list item A1 #list item A2 |
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One level deeper, with a sublist item continuing after a sub-sublist, one gets even more blank lines; however, the continuation of the first-level list is not affected:
#list item A1 ##list item B1 ###list item C1 ##:continuing list item B1 ##list item B2 #list item A2
gives
- list item A1
- list item B1
- list item C1
- continuing list item B1
- list item B2
- list item B1
- list item A2
See also template:List demo ( talk edit history links ) and subdivisions.
Extra indentation of lists
In a numbered list in a large font, some browsers do not show more than two digits, unless extra indentation is applied (if there are multiple columns: for each column).
:#abc :#def :#ghi
gives
- abc
- def
- ghi
This doesn't work directly for XHTML <ol> lists instead of #, for <ul> lists the Wiki markup * is more flexible.
Multi-column numbered lists
Specifying a starting value is useful for a numbered list with multiple columns, to avoid restarting from one in each column. This is only possible with HTML-syntax (for the first column either wiki-syntax or HTML-syntax can be used).
In combination with the extra indentation explained in the previous section:
{| |<ol start="125"><li>a<li>bb<li>ccc</ol> |<ol start="128"><li>ddd<li>ee<li>f</ol> |}
gives
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Numbered list across sections
:<h3>Example A</h3> #abc #def<h3>Example B</h3> #ghi #jkl
gives
Example A
- abc
- def
Example B
- ghi
- jkl
However, this disturbs section numbering within and after the list: "sections" produced by the h3 tag have an edit link (if enabled) and link to accordingly numbered sections, but application of "section =n " is based on sections defined by = signs only.
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