Numerical List Formatting

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Posted on Feb. 20, 2012, 9:35 a.m. by Rhadamanthus

This is in response to seeing what happened in this thread.

Okay, so I'm going to make a numerical list, and the numbers I'm going to type are "2, 4, 6, 8".

1. Two
2. Four
3. Six
4. Eight

Why does this happen? I don't remember the site's auto-formatting always working this way.

Spoofed says... #2

2 Two

4 Four

6 Six

8 Eight

1. Two
2. Four
3. Six
4. Eight

2) Two

4) Four

6) Six

8) Eight

Its a feature of Hypertext Markup so that it automatically turns any numeric into an ordered list. It only occurs when you place a period after the number so all you have to remember is use a different punctuation mark if you wish to not have a list.

February 20, 2012 11:17 a.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #3

Word. Now that I think about it, I've probably mostly used the 1) notation in the past, which is why it cooperated with me then. Thanks for that.

February 20, 2012 11:36 a.m.

Bingbing says... #4

Oh. That's interesting. Thanks for clearing this up!

February 21, 2012 8:41 a.m.