Ordered list inside unordered list

[MC Hammer]

Hi all
I seem to have a problem with ordered lists inside unordered lists. Basically although the tags are correct in the HTML source code, the ordered list items are displayed with a bullet point.
This happens both in the topic preview within Flare and in the output (clean XHTML output).
Is there a workaround, or shouldn't I be using ordered lists inside unordered lists?

Thanks,

[Rene Severens]

Hi,

unordered lists have bullet points by default. I guess you are referring to the ordered list inside the unordered list, that should have numbers in stead of bullets.

I usually create the ordered list outside of the unordered list, then start a paragraph in the unordered list item and next copy paste the ordered list into this paragraph.

Note that I only use the default styles. In case yo have defined combinations of list styles in the applied stylesheet, then that can give a different result.

Greetings,

René Severens

[MC Hammer]

Hi Rene
Yes sorry, I now amended my first post.
Thanks for the workaround, I am going to try it!

[Nita Beck]

I don't think it's necessary to have to put a paragraph in first.

I think all you need to do is to select the ul structure bar of the nested unordered list and then change the type of list to an ordered list by selecting Numbered List from the List drop-down menu on the Home ribbon. Might even be able to do the same by right-clicking the structure bar and selecting an appropriate option from the shortcut menu. (I'm going on memory so don't recall offhand if there is a menu option that'll accomplish this.)

Hope I haven't misunderstood the issue...

EDIT: Yes, I checked. Right-click on the nested list's structure bar and then use the Type command to select the type of list you want.

[MC Hammer]

Hi
Thanks for the replies.
I am not sure I understood what you meant Nita...
I have tried putting the ordered lists inside paragraphs but that did not work.

In the screenshot below, you can see the structure bar, showing 2 ordered lists inside an unordered list (left side).

source-html.png

Yet, the resulting output shows bullets for each list entry, even for the ordered list (similar to what can be seen on the WYSIWYG in screenshot above, right side).

I want the unordered list to have bullet points (which is the case and is correct), and the ordered list inside that unordered list to be a numbered list (and not have bullet points).
Not too sure what is going on. I will also have a look at the list styles defined in the CSS.

[devjoe]

Look for anything in the CSS with list-style-type defined. Also try looking at this output using the Inspect feature of your browser to see what formatting (and from where) is being applied to these inner lists.

[MC Hammer]

Thank you all for your help and advice.
We are using complex selectors and the bullet style was being picked from ul li

Code: Select all

list-style-type: disc;

Created a new complex selector and problem solved. Thanks again!