Bullets in Quotes

[Evil Lincoln]

This has been a minor annoyance for some time. Any interest in a fix?

[hogarth]

• I would also like to highjack this thread to renew the complaints about bullets getting swallowed by a poster's avatar when a bullet list is near the top of a post.

[Gary Teter]

Oh yeah, our style sheet for unordered lists sucks. I think I'll let the new minion fix it.

[Gary Teter]

There were two other threads about this that popped up over the weekend. I've left a note pointing to this thread and locked them since this one's topic is easier for me to remember to find it again when we eventually fix the problem.

[Gruuuu]

I dunno, I kinda like it

• It's like my avatar's ear is dripping black orcish blood

Or maybe a really dangly earing, I dunno.

[Gary Teter]

OK, that's funny.

[Evil Lincoln]

Evil Lincoln's Ebony Ioun Stone?

[Freesword]

Evil Lincoln wrote:

This has been a minor annoyance for some time. Any interest in a fix?

That particular white background seems to be from an unordered list [ * ] (spaces added so it shows up) that is not enclosed in [ list ] [ /list ] tags with a blank line after the last list item.

Test without tags wrote:

This

is

a

test

This should have a white background.

Test with tags wrote:

• This
  
• is
  
• a
  
• test
  

This should have a normal quote background.

Having the next line immediately below the list with no line skipped or placing a [ /* ] after the last item also seems to keep normal quote background.

Test without tags, no line skipped after last item wrote:

This

is

a

test
This should have a normal quote background.

Test without tags, /* tag after last item wrote:

This

is

a

test

This should have a normal quote background.

I know the white is tied to a < p > (spaces added so it shows up) paragraph tag in the html occurring inside the <blockquote> tag, but this is the first instance I've been able to consistently reproduce. Oddly, I have also seen < p > paragraph tags inside the <blockquote> have no effect on the background color, so it must be a combination of the paragraph tag with some other factor.

I've been curious about the cause of that white background in quoted text for some time. I may be wrong, but I could swear I've seen it when the preceding text is not an unordered list. I'll have to see if I can find an example of that.

As a side note, looking at my examples above, I believe enclosing the unordered list [ * ] in [ list ][ /list ] tags will also fix the bullets' overwriting of avatars as it will indent the list farther. (I don't have an avatar so I can't test this theory.)

[Gruuuu]

• LET'S JUST FOUND OUT HUH?

Freesword wrote:

As a side note, looking at my examples above, I believe enclosing the unordered list [ * ] in [ list ][ /list ] tags will also fix the bullets' overwriting of avatars as it will indent the list farther. (I don't have an avatar so I can't test this...

(nope)

[Freesword]

I guess I was wrong about that.

[Gruuuu]

Evil Lincoln wrote:

Evil Lincoln's Ebony Ioun Stone?

Weird. Evil Lincoln's bullet stayed out of his personal space.

And he didn't close his bullet.

[Evil Lincoln]

Thereby ruining a perfectly stupid joke.

[Gruuuu]

I take it Cross-Eyed John Wilkes Booth missed the mark then?

Spoiler:

bazinga

[hogarth]

Gruuuu wrote:

I dunno, I kinda like it

• It's like my avatar's ear is dripping black orcish blood

Or maybe a really dangly earing, I dunno.

Gruuu -- your dripping ear has vanished altogether! In IE7, anyways.

[Gruuuu]

hogarth wrote:

Gruuuu wrote:

I dunno, I kinda like it

• It's like my avatar's ear is dripping black orcish blood

Or maybe a really dangly earing, I dunno.

Gruuu -- your dripping ear has vanished altogether! In IE7, anyways.

Chrome's got em still