Editing Help:List (section)

==Comparison with a table==
Apart from providing automatic numbering, the numbered list also aligns the contents of the items, comparable with using table syntax:

<pre>
{|
|-
| align=right |  9.|| Amsterdam
|-
| align=right | 10.|| Rotterdam
|-
| align=right | 11.|| The Hague
|}
</pre>

gives:

{|
|-
| align=right |  9.|| Amsterdam
|-
| align=right | 10.|| Rotterdam
|-
| align=right | 11.|| The Hague
|}
This non-automatic numbering has the advantage that if a text refers to the numbers, insertion or deletion of an item does not disturb the correspondence.