Forum:First line in bulleted list in infobox cell not working properly

Hey, it's me again. I want to write a several line high bulleted list into template infobox sell, like this:


 * Description = *text first line
 * line 2
 * line 3

See this page for example. It technically works, it looks like this:

*textfirst line
 * line 2
 * line 3

First entry is just * and text, second, third and all others work correctly. Does anyone know how to make first entry register as bulleted list too?

voice (talk) 17:12, October 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hey Eon voice. In order for the * to be recognized as a bullet, it has to start the line that it is on. So instead of |description = *blah make it

|description =
 * blah
 * Rappy 17:21, October 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * I tried, it has no effect. Still doing * at first entry. voice (talk) 17:32, October 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * Yeah, that line break is removed. I edited the template itself to force the first line to always be a bullet. If this isn't going to be the case, you will have to look for another option. You no longer have to add the * to the first bullet when adding the template on a page. Rappy 17:37, October 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you man! voice (talk) 19:51, October 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * There are two ways around that:


 * Or you can use a trick I discovered where you can create a new parser sub-context by using parser functions:



<!- Some article -->
 * Many parser functions, the decision ones having the fewest side-effects, re-invoke the parser recursively. It took me weeks before I discovered this trick but it makes templates much less ugly to build and use, especially in infoboxes (No more unnecessary line-breaks that create unwanted &lt;P&gt; tags everywhere). Lunarity 06:15, October 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that is a better solution. I changed the parameter to




 * and now it works flawlelss. This way, when I don't want a bulleted list, there won't be one. voice (talk) 12:36, October 17, 2012 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia has fixed this particular bug, can Wikia import that fix into its codebase? -- 70.24.247.66 11:37, October 18, 2012 (UTC)