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Issue changing the list type at indentation level 3 and higher.

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Summary by Elitre (WMF)

no followup from user.

Jmccausl (talkcontribs)

I am new with VisualEditor and I am trying to re-produce an example of a list that mixes bullet list items with numbered list items (on different indentations). The example shown on the test page shows the following list:

These are the planets in this solar system:
* Four terrestrial planets
*# Mercury
*# Venus
*# Earth
*#* One satellite, called the Moon
*# Mars

I tried to reproduce this list in the VisualEditor as follows:

  1. Select menu item "Bullet list" and type "Four Terrestrial planets"
  2. Add a second list item (press enter) and indent (press tab) list item to level 2.
  3. Select menu item "Numbered list" and add the four planet names as separate list items
  4. Go to the list item "Earth" and create a new list item between "Earth" and "Mars" (press Enter after text "Earth").
  5. Indent (press tab) list item to level 3.
  6. Change the list type at level 3 to bullet by pressing menu item "Bullet List".

At step 6, pressing the menu item "Bullet List" removes the list at that line. I expected the behaviour to change the list type to bullet and not remove the list. Is this the expected behaviour or a bug?

Cheers!

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

So here's how I did it today:

  1. Type the whole list first. Everything is a simple, single-level bulleted list.
  2. Indent stuff to the level that you want. It's all still bullets.
  3. Click on the middle level (the one that ought to be numbers) and switch that item to numbers.

Does that work for you?