Last modified: 2009-07-20 04:49:14 UTC
Ordered and unordered lists align differently in Monobook and Chick skins, while they align consistently in browsers' default rendering and in all other skins. In these two skins unordered lists have a default margin-left: 1.5em, while ordered lists have margin-left: 3em applied (to give room for 3-digit list item numbers). When the two types of lists are nested and mixed, the hierarchical relationship is not reflected correctly in page rendering. The simplest fix is to add margin-left: 3em for unordered lists, in these two skins. This will change the rendering of pages, but will make them consistent with other skins, so it is solving a problem. More info: [[en:MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css#Consistent list alignment]].
Correction: ordered lists have margin-left: 3.2em; applied.
Disagree with adding margin-left: 3em to unordered lists, as they are often used in tight spaces, like data tables. This change could also affect threaded dicussions and votes, where it may no longer be clear who someone is responding to.
If mixed, nested lists actually do appear in discussions or votes (doubtful; show me an example), they currently render differently in some skins, so they are definitely broken for some readers or for others. Applying a fix would repair this discrepancy. Where this is more important is the structure of complex lists in articles, where the hierarchical relationship of nested lists is rendered wrongly in Monobook and Chick. This affects the actual meaning in articles, and should be fixed. Example: [[en:Romanization of Ukrainian#Table of romanization systems]]. The table notes must have manually-applied list numbers, because a wiki ordered list was drawn too far right and looked like it was subordinate to an item above it.
Regarding data tables, we could apply an override to make lists in tables as compact as possible: th ol, th ul, td ol, td ul { list-style-position: inside; margin-left: 0; padding-left: .5em; }
Another editor pointed out that definition-list definitions also align inconsistently with other lists, in Monobook, having <code>margin-left: 2em;</ code>. For the sake of presentation, they ought to have the same margin-left as other lists. Since they are less likely to be mixed with other lists, and are extensively used for indenting discussion, changing this should be considered carefully.
*** Bug 4896 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 12262 ***
