Thread:A morris/@comment-27025402-20160304004154/@comment-27025402-20160314162245

Hi, Allison! Thanks for your patience while I messed around with CSS.

I figured out (mostly?) how to make Wikia's automarkup for lists look less atrocious. I've updated MediaWiki:Wikia.css to reduce the CSS margins for lists. Now, contiguous lists and paragraphs should be right up against each other without extra whitespace. Unfortunately, I can't figure out a way to avoid one problem, which is that new lists/paragraphs must be separated from previous lists by an extra blank line (so, two total). For example: Sometimes you want a list with: ...items in it, but then continue the paragraph without an extra line break. Other times, you want separate lists.
 * one,
 * two,
 * or even three


 * Alive:
 * Vex
 * Grog


 * Dead:
 * Grog's Beard
 * Vax

Note how the separate Alive/Dead lists have to be separated from the previous lists with two blank lines, as does this paragraph.

Normal paragraphs, however, still work with just one blank line. The only change is when lists are involved, and it will be obvious when using "Preview" that an extra line does or doesn't need to be added. Sometimes you want a list with: ...items in it, but then continue the paragraph without an extra line break. Other times, you want separate lists.
 * one,
 * two,
 * or even three


 * Alive:
 * Vex
 * Grog


 * Dead:
 * Grog's Beard
 * Vax

Note how the Alive/Dead lists have to be separated with blank lines, as does this paragraph.

Normal paragraphs, however, still work with just one blank line. The only change is when lists are involved, and it will be obvious when using "Preview" that an extra line does or doesn't need to be added.

Maybe it's just me, but the list appearance was really annoying me, and although I had some great ideas for template solutions, CSS is just the easiest for editors. If you have any thoughts on ways to improve the CSS handling of lists/paragraphs, please let me know! Again, this is fairly new territory for me.
 * –VeganCritter (talk) 16:22, March 14, 2016 (UTC)