Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:05:31 UTC
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/20050511] 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.
Originally reported at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MediaWiki_1.5_bugs#Indented_bullets_put_blank_spaces_in_pages
See my comment on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:List which perfectly shows the problem. Andreas.
(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.
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.
