[crispycreme]

(Not sure if this is the right forum, please move if not)

The list tag is pretty nifty for showing your life lists. Using the numbered list option saves a heck of a lot of time. Like this:

Crispy's Demonstration List
[ list = 1 ]
[ * ]Brown-headed Cowbird
[ * ]Bronzed Cowbird
[ * ]House Finch
[ * ]Pine Siskin
[ /list ]

Which gives us:


Crispy's Demonstration List

1. Brown-headed Cowbird
2. Bronzed Cowbird
3. House Finch
4. Pine Siskin

Notice only lines with the [ * ] tag in front of them are actually included in the list. You can add un-listed headings, like showing the various families (which you'd not wish to actually include in the count), but there's a glitch. Observe:

Crispy's Demonstration List

[ list=1 ]
[ b ]Icteridae[ /b ]
[ * ]Brown-headed Cowbird
[ * ]Bronzed Cowbird
[ b ]Fringillidae[ /b ]
[ * ]House Finch
[ * ]Pine Siskin
[ /list ]


Crispy's Demonstration List

1. Icteridae
2. Brown-headed Cowbird
3. Bronzed Cowbird
   Fringillidae
4. House Finch
5. Pine Siskin

Notice that it handles the second heading, in this case "Fringillidae", just fine. But it can't seem to manage the first heading, "Icteridae". This appears to be a little glitch in the BBCode. Is this something the Powers That Be can take a look at sometime? I realize it's a small, obscure thing.

[Green Fields]

Originally Posted by crispycreme

Notice that it handles the second heading, in this case "Fringillidae", just fine. But it can't seem to manage the first heading, "Icteridae". This appears to be a little glitch in the BBCode. Is this something the Powers That Be can take a look at sometime? I realize it's a small, obscure thing.

You still need the '[*]' before the '[ b ]Icteridae[ /b ]'

1. Icteridae
2. Brown-headed Cowbird
3. Bronzed Cowbird
   
   Fringillidae
4. House Finch
5. Pine Siskin

OR You have to break out of the list each time, if you want a proper 'header' as you say.

Icteridae

1. Brown-headed Cowbird
2. Bronzed Cowbird

Fringillidae

1. House Finch
2. Pine Siskin

Also note that if you are using the 'WYSIWIG' editor, which is recommended for ease of use, you only have to click a button - just like you would in say, Microsoft Word or Appleworks.

Ollie

[crispycreme]

Thanks for the info, Green Fields. However, neither of the two options you provided are what I'm looking for - as the first method adds the titles into the count (thus returning an incorrect count), and the second won't give grand total (just a bunch of subtotals). The curious thing is, I suspect that it should do what I'm trying to demonstrate. If you take a look at the link in my sig, it's my life list using the HTML equivalent of the [ list ] function, and as you can see incorporating titles into lists works just fine. If there's no tag to indicate a list item (which in HTML it's <li> instead of [ * ] but the function is the same), the list code simply ignores the line, allowing non-list items to be interspersed within the list items, e.g. titles or chapter headings. To top it off, the fact that in Bird Forum's BB code each subsequent title after the intial one works, as I showed in my initial post, assures me that it's intended to work in these forums. It's appears it's simply a glitch in the coding.

[Green Fields]

Actually, it's not a glitch :)

What it is is that you are spreading one bullet point over multiple lines - eg bullet point number 3 is 'Bronzed Cowbird [new line] Fringillidae'

Look at the HTML generated:

 <ol style="list-style-type: decimal"><li><br /><b>Icteridae</b></li>
     <li>Brown-headed Cowbird</li>
     <li>Bronzed Cowbird<br /><b>Fringillidae</b></li>
     <li>House Finch</li>
     <li>Pine Siskin</li>
   </ol>

I'll play around and see if I can find a better way of doing things.

Ollie

[crispycreme]

I see what you're saying. However, it seems the HTML equivalent can allow non-listed items (as opposed to multi-lined list items) as evidenced by the first family heading of my life list, which although input before the first list tag still displays as a non-listed item. So it seems that even if the subsequent titles are simply the second lines of line-wrapping list items it doesn't explain the first title phenomenon.

Anyway, this was far more convoluted than I anticipated, as I have a hard time explaining things which I have a dangerously limited knowledge of. Thanks for taking a look into the matter, Ollie - it's certainly not anything I want you to invest all your time on!