HTML Cheats: Quick Bulleted Lists Using Blogs

Believe it, or not, I think that Blogger's editor is the best between it and WordPress for making a bullet list in this fashion. If you are making the list for either Blogger or WordPress to use on their own platforms, they work absolutely fine, but I'm going to take a list I had already made, and simply copy it.

It may look fine here, but it was after a list of the songs on an album. I was actually featuring several albums, with different musicians lined up on each, so I wanted to make sure it was easy for readers to scan the list to pick out the musicians on each one.

I copied the list, and headed to Blogger.

Make sure it is set for "Compose" on the top right. Click on one of the "List" Icons (in the center, the pointer is on "Unordered List) and a dot (or number for "Ordered List") pops up in the work area.

I just paste my text into the work area, which puts my list after the single dot, then I arrow down the left side and press "Enter" on each line. Each time I hit "Enter" another dot is placed where the cursor is:

Once I have a dot before each line, I switch to "Edit Html":

Here you can see the unordered tags (<ul> and </ul>) and list tags (<li> and </li>), the little guys that make typing out lists such a pain, placed within my text.

I just highlight everything, switch back to Squidoo, and paste it into my module:

This is how it looks when finished:

Sure, you can use WordPress, they are very similar, there is just enough difference to me that, since I have access to both, I use Blogger to make bullet lists to use elsewhere.

Make sure you are set for "Visual"...

I click on "Unordered list":

Which brings up my first dot, but instead of pasting my text with a right-click of my mouse, which I usually do, I have to paste it using the keyboard short cut (ctrl-v):

After I've pasted the text, I use the arrow down, and "Enter" to add the list dot to each line:

When I switch over to "HTML" you can see the difference. Everything is spaced out differently:

When I move it to Squidoo and publish, it looks like this:

Some may be fine with that, but I don't like it, so I edit out the spaces to make it look like this:

When finished, it looks just like it did when I used Blogger. It's still nicer than having to type out all those tags!

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Quick Bulleted Lists Using Blogs
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