Help:List

There are three types of lists: unordered lists, ordered lists, and description lists (a.k.a. definition lists or association lists). In the following sections, various list types are used for different examples, but other list types will generally give corresponding results. Ordered (numbered) lists should usually be used only for list items that should be in a specific order, such as steps in a cooking recipe.

marks the end of the list. Of course

Description (definition, association) lists:

or

Can be used for more than terms and definitions per se. or

like this.

Like so.

"block quotations"

There must be no blank lines between list items. Blank lines terminate a list, splitting it into two separate lists. This is most easily illustrated using an ordered list:

In the second example above, the numbering resets after the blank line. This problem is less noticeable with other list types, but it still affects the underlying HTML code and may have disruptive effects for some readers; see WP:LISTGAP for details.

In order to be a list, each line must begin the same way. This holds true for mixed lists.

This mistake can also be less noticeable in some circumstances, but it creates single-item lists of different types; besides being semantically wrong, this may cause disruptive side effects for some readers.

Do not use a semicolon simply to give a list a title. Semicolons and colons make one kind of list; asterisks make another.

All of the techniques described in this section can be used with each other and with any type of list, at any list level.

Paragraphs can be created inside list items by using the HTML <p>...</p> (paragraph) element around the second and subsequent paragraphs, :

Paragraph 2.

Paragraph 3.

Do not use <br /> as a substitute for <p>...</p>; they have different semantics and are not interchangeable.

For code readability (the improvement is more apparent when the paragraphs are long, rather than with short examples like these), line-breaks may be created with HTML comments, <!-- ... -->, that begin on one line against the end of that line's code and end on another line, against the beginning of that line's code:

Paragraph 2.

Paragraph 3.

This technique can be used with the other examples below.

Use a single <br /> for a non-paragraph line break, e.g. where using a nested list is not desired because sub-items are already preceded by numbers:

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