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Missing list levels produce unwanted list-item markers in Gecko and unwanted vertical white-space in IE
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Description

Author: zigger

Description:
Missing list levels produce different problems in different browsers, e.g.

*3 levels
***5 levels

Firefix 1.04 [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8)
Gecko/rMW200505116d94] has one extra bullet on the list-item line for each missing list
level.

IE 6-SP1 [6.0.2800.1106 SP1, Q...] has extra vertical white-space, proportional
to the number of missing levels.

Proposals:

  1. Either strip missing levels, or
  2. use a "div" for each missing list level, with a CSS class to match the ul/ol

margins from the relevant stylesheet.

The supplied URL shows the problems and proposals.


Version: unspecified
Severity: minor
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zigger/Missing_list_levels

Details

Reference
bz2680

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 8:38 PM
bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Parser.
bzimport set Reference to bz2680.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

tillea wrote:

See my comment on

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:List

which perfectly shows the problem.

Andreas.

tillea wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

Originally reported at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MediaWiki_1.5_bugs#Indented_bullets_put_blank_spaces_in_pages

This link does not work so I continue reporting here.

Andreas.

tillea wrote:

BTW, this bug is not bound to specific browsers like Gecko based or IE - there
is just some wrong code rendered which also lets Konquerer and Opera fail to
render the page right. So the bug title should probably be renamed.

This is basically an issue of "It hurts when I do this!" "Don't do that."
If you skip levels, it has to fill them in. The result isn't very pretty, so
you shouldn't do that if it's not what you wanted.

This bug is likely to be closed as WONTFIX.