{"id":868,"date":"2008-03-28T06:16:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T16:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/how-to-correct-bulleted-list-error-with-css\/"},"modified":"2011-07-08T08:58:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:58:54","slug":"how-to-correct-bulleted-list-error-with-css","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/how-to-correct-bulleted-list-error-with-css\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Correct Bulleted List Errors with CSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've been running across more and more bulleted list errors on webpages of late. An unordered bulleted list should be coded as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&lt;UL&gt;<br \/>&lt;LI&gt;1st Item&lt;\/LI&gt;<br \/>&lt;LI&gt;2nd Item &lt;\/LI&gt;<br \/>&lt;LI&gt;3rd Item&lt;\/LI&gt;<br \/>&lt;\/UL&gt;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The resulting bulleted list will appear like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>1st Item<\/li>\n<li>2nd Item<\/li>\n<li>3rd Item<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, I frequently see this awful looking mess on webpages and blogs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;[if !supportLists]&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;[endif]&#8211;&gt; 1st Item&lt;\/p&gt;<br \/>&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;[if !supportLists]&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;[endif]&#8211;&gt; 2nd Item&lt;\/p&gt;<br \/>&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;[if !supportLists]&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;[endif]&#8211;&gt; 3rd Item&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why is that happening? <\/p>\n<p>Well, in a nutshell, those bloggers are probably using Microsoft Word to create their posts, which they then convert into HTML code and copy and paste into to their blogs. <\/p>\n<p>That method might work but for the fact that none of the CSS (cascading style sheets) on the sites showing the errors specified paramaters for rendering either a  &lt;UL&gt; (unordered list) or a &lt;LI&gt; (list item). <\/p>\n<p>At very least, the following code should be placed within their stylesheets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ul li {<br \/>\n\tdisplay: inline;<br \/>\n\tlist-style-type: none;<br \/>\n\t}<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To learn more about CSS and coding for bulleted lists, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/css\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">visit the W3Schools site<\/a>.<\/p>\n[tags]CSS, lists, bulleted list, unordered list[\/tags]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been running across more and more bulleted list errors on webpages of late. 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