How do I create a numbered or bulleted list?

I have not discovered a way to make numbered lists. You would have to number items manually. And, as you discovered, the old non-html formatting tricks don't work because those were part of the old software used for the forum and therefore they are not supported by the new software.

Hi Dale,

I think the raw HTML tags should work. As example:

<ol><li>aaa</li><li>bbb</li><li>ccc</li></ol>

produces the following:

1. aaa
2. bbb
3. ccc

Thanx. I thought I had tried the numbered lists without success, but I was obviously wrong. I probably did something wrong when I set up the code when I was testing - who knows.

...But an unordered/bulleted list is rendered without the bullets!

I found the reason for the missing bullets, the style sheet ( http://a772.g.akamai.net/7/772/51/20051114/discussions.apple.com/css/discussions .css) used by the forum set the default to be none, use one of the follow styles to set the bullet styles:

<ul class="square"><li>xxx</li><li>yyy</li></ul>

• xxx
• yyy

<ul class="circle"><li>aaa</li><li>bbb</li></ul>

• aaa
• bbb

I'm sorry if this is not entirely relevent to the topic of bullets. (Which I've found very useful as I also had trouble with bullets) But I've found other HTML problems.

• The <code><hr></code> tag does not work it just produces the tag as if it were text.
• Also, text shadows aren't working. I usually put this HTML code: <code><hr>

  Sam

  </code> at the bottom of my posts and it displays what you would expect, but no more. It looks like the shadow is just ignored

Has anyone experienced this or any other errors in HTML rendering? Is this problem due to the stylesheets too?

Thanks for any help

-Sam

[edit] and also, as you can see, the <code> tag does not work.

Dictionary lists ("dl") are also being rendered as raw HTML tags:(

<dl>
<dt>term 1</dt><dd>Here is the definition</dd>
<dt>term 2</dt><dd>Here is the definition</dd>
<dt>term 3</dt><dd>Here is the definition</dd>
</dl>

Yes, there is definitely a difference subset of html codes that work in the new forums than there was in the old and it is going to take a while and some experimentation to find out what is and what is not allowed. Also, if you use html special coding for characters for code snippets, it is converted to real coding if you preview or edit your message.

Here is a reply I used in the old forum:

You use some basic html coding. If you want to go to Apple's web site, type:

<a href="http://www.apple.com/">Apple</a>

What you will see when you post the message is Apple.

<blockquote>Also, if you have the page you want to link to open in another window or tab, you can copy the url and paste it between the quotation marks. Fewer typos and bad links that way.</blockquote>

Also, if you have the page you want to link to open in another window or tab, you can copy the url and paste it between the quotation marks. Fewer typos and bad links that way.

For italics type <i>italics</i>

For bold type <b>bold</b>

To use colors, type the following:

<font color="blue">blue</font> for blue
<font color="green">green</font> for green

Type <b><font color="red">bolded red</font></b> for bolded red

If you dont want to worry about html coding, you can try level4 or Simone.