In HTML, bullet lists are called "unordered lists" and numbered lists are called "ordered lists".
Each list item is created as a paragraph of text, where a paragraph is a piece of text that ends with a "carriage return" or "Enter"... it can contain several sentences or just a single sentence, or a line of just a word or two.
In order to create a numbered list or a bullet list, select all the paragraphs that will make up the list, and then click on the "UNORDERED LIST" (bullet list) or "ORDERED LIST" (numbered list) button. Each paragraph will be a single list item. When the list is created, the blank lines between the paragraphs will be deleted since our standard list style does not have blank lines between list items. If the paragraphs were created by copying and pasting from a list in WORD, the paragraphs will probably start with a number or a bullet copied from WORD, but which is treated as text by wordpress... so you may end up with 2 bullets or 2 numbers for each list item. Just delete the WORD bullets or numbers (the ones closest to the text).
Example, create the next 4 "paragraphs" which you want to become a list:
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Paragraph 1. A paragraph can contain any number
of sentences. The entire paragraph
will be 1 list item.
Paragraph 2.
Paragraph 3.
Paragraph 4. This is another long
paragraph consisting of several sentences.
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After selecting the 4 paragraphs above, press the ORDERED LIST or UNORDERED LIST button, and you will get this (for ORDERED LIST (numbered list), for example):
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1. Paragraph 1. A paragraph can contain any number
of sentences. The entire paragraph
will be 1 list item.
2. Paragraph 2.
3. Paragraph 3.
4. Paragraph 4. This is another long
paragraph consisting of several sentences.
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If you want to "force" a line break within a paragraph, hold down the SHIFT key and press the ENTER key (this is the way WORD works as well). You MAY not be able to do this to create a "blank" line in a list, because wordpress MAY automatically remove the blank line.
Bullet lists and numbered lists are automatically indented according to our standard style sheet. You can override this but you have to use wordpress HTML mode, instead of VISUAL mode. In HTML mode, find the list you want to modify. If it is a bullet list, it will start (before the first bullet item only) with the HTML code
and will end (after the last bullet item only) with the HTML code
In order to remove the indentation of the entire list for BULLET lists, change the HTML code to:
You don't need to change the
ending code. The 14px seems to be just enough to shift the bullet list to the left to align it with the left border of the text.
If it is a numbered list, it will start with
and end with
I am not sure but I think you can use 30px for numbered lists where the number of items in the list is double-digit (01-99). If it is only single digit, try 18px or so. For example,
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NESTED LISTS:
You can also "nest" lists within lists, so that a list item may contain a list within itself. The "nested" list is indented within the original list item. The easiest way to do this is to make all the list items, including the nested list items, individual paragraphs. Then select all the list items, including the nested ones, and press the ORDERED or UNORDERED list button. All of the selected paragraphs will become list items. Now select the list items that you want to "nest", the items that should be indented further within the preceding list item, and press the INDENT button on the tool bar. (If you don't see an INDENT button, press the "SHOW/HIDE KITCHEN SINK" button on the tool bar and you should now see a new row of buttons including an INDENT button.) After you press the INDENT button, the selected list items will become "sub-list" items, or nested list items nested within the preceding list item. The nested list items do not have to be the same "type" of list items as the main list... they may be either bullet items or number items. To change the type, just select the nested list items you want to change and press the ORDERED or UNORDERED list button to change them.
EXAMPLE:
From our example text above, create a list that looks like this:
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1. Paragraph 1. A paragraph can contain any number
of sentences. The entire paragraph
will be 1 list item.
2. Paragraph 2.
3. Paragraph 3.
4. Paragraph 4. This is another long
paragraph consisting of several sentences.
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Now assume we want to make list items 2. and 3. a sublist under list item 1. To do this, select list items 2. and 3. and press the INDENT button. You then get this:
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1. Paragraph 1. A paragraph can contain any number
of sentences. The entire paragraph
will be 1 list item.
1. Paragraph 2.
2. Paragraph 3.
2. Paragraph 4. This is another long
paragraph consisting of several sentences.
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If you want the sublist to be a bullet list instead of a numbered list, select the 2 sublist items and press the "UNORDERED LIST" button to get this:
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1. Paragraph 1. A paragraph can contain any number
of sentences. The entire paragraph
will be 1 list item.
ð Paragraph 2.
ð Paragraph 3.
2. Paragraph 4. This is another long
paragraph consisting of several sentences.
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