Editing Help:List (section)

==Continuing a list item after a sub-item==
In HTML, a list item may contain several sublists, not necessarily adjacent; thus there may be parts of the list item not only before the first sublist, but also between sublists, and after the last one. However, in wiki-syntax, sublists follow the same rules as sections of a page: the only possible part of the list item not in sublists is before the first sublist.

In the case of an unnumbered first-level list in wikitext code this limitation can be overcome by splitting the list into multiple lists; indented text between the partial lists may visually serve as part of a list item after a sublist; however, this may give, depending on CSS, a blank line before and after each list, in which case, for uniformity, every first-level list item could be made a separate list.

Numbered lists illustrate that what should look like one list may, for the software, consist of multiple lists; unnumbered lists give a corresponding result, except that the problem of restarting with 1 is not applicable.

{| style="border:1px;border-spacing:1px;" class="wikitable sortable" cellpadding="5"
|- style=""
|
<pre><ol>
  <li><translate><!--T:28--> list item</translate> A1
    <ol>
      <li><translate><!--T:29--> list item</translate> B1</li>
      <li><translate><!--T:30--> list item</translate> B2</li>
    </ol><translate><!--T:31--> continuing list item</translate> A1
  </li>
  <li><translate><!--T:32--> list item</translate> A2</li>
</ol></pre>
| <ol>
  <li> list item A1
    <ol>
      <li>list item B1</li>
      <li>list item B2</li>
    </ol>continuing list item A1
  </li>
  <li>list item A2</li>
</ol>
|- style="font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"
| colspan="2" | vs.
|- style=""
|<pre>
#list item A1
##list item B1
##list item B2
#:continuing list item A1
#list item A2</pre>
|
#list item A1
##list item B1
##list item B2
#:continuing list item A1
#list item A2
|}

One level deeper, with a sublist item continuing after a sub-sublist, one gets even more blank lines; however, the continuation of the first-level list is not affected:

<pre>
#list item A1
##list item B1
###list item C1
##:continuing list item B1
##list item B2
#list item A2
</pre>
gives
#list item A1
##list item B1
###list item C1
##:continuing list item B1
##list item B2
#list item A2

It is possible to embed unnumbered bullets inside enclosing numbered items: 
<pre>
# list item A
#* nested bullet A1
#* nested bullet A2
# continuing list item B
#* nested bullet B1
#* nested bullet B2
</pre>

gives
# list item A
#* nested bullet A1
#* nested bullet A2
# continuing list item B
#* nested bullet B1
#* nested bullet B2