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Confusing behaviour when increasing the indentation of the first item in a list
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Description

how to reproduce:

  1. go to : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivar_the_Boneless&oldid=561289060
  1. edit the external links with VE.
  1. at the end of the first line push the TAB button.

You get a dot.

every tab you add you get a new dot added.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

Details

Reference
bz50908

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:55 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz50908.
Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:13 AM
Esanders renamed this task from VisualEditor: Show multi-level lists in a better way in VisualEditor (and in MediaWiki?) to Confusing behaviour when increasing the indentation of the first item in a list.Dec 5 2023, 5:28 PM
Esanders subscribed.

Google Docs and LibreOffice don't allow you to indent the first item of a list. They instead visually (but not semantically) indent the entire list. Doing that in MediaWiki (with our <dd> hack indentation) would be even more confusing, so I think doing nothing would make more sense here. Users should probably have to create a bullet list above the first one before increasing indentation.