[pmwiki-users] Second level ul strange output

[Oliver Betz]

"Patrick R. Michaud" wrote:

>> <dl><dd>
>>  <ul>
>>   <li>foo</li>
>>   <li>bar</li>
>>  </ul>
>> </dd></dl>
>> 
>> for this markup:
>> ** foo
>> ** bar
>
>What would you prefer that it use?

I can't tell for sure what I _prefer_ in the end because I have very
little HTML knowledge, but I _expected_ a second level ul.

The problem with the <dl> is that the presentation differs from a
second level (nested) <ul>. So if you have

* some item
** subitem

and a stand-alone

** foo
** bar

then subitem isn't aligned with foo and in most cases it will use
another bullet (background explained below).

since

<ul><ul>
  <li>foo</li>
</ul></ul>

doesn't seem to be correct HTML, putting the second level list in a
<li> with "list-style: none;" and maybe "display: inline" could be an
alternative:

<ul>
  <li style="list-style: none; display: inline">
    <ul>
      <li>foo</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

I don't know whether "display: inline" is really needed.


The original problem was that when I used a pagelist producing second
level list items, the presentation for these items differed from
manually entered second level items.

One reason was that the pagelist wrap= parameter was documented
incorrectly and incompletely (see thread "Pagelist wrap= parameter
documentation error?"). There is no "HTML" option for this parameter.

I changed PmWiki/PageLists according to my findings, but I don't
understand completely the effect of $FPLTemplateMarkupFunction so my
description is still incomplete and maybe wrong.

Oliver