Nested <ol> <ul> lists display incorrectly with default theme

[andrewjorgensen]

A nested ordered / unordered list places bullets AND numbers on the unordered list. You can see an ​example of this on my own site. The bug is somewhere in wp-content/themes/default/style.css. I fixed it once before but I don't recall where the bug is now.

Does that help?

That patch would get rid of the >> marks, but not the numbering.

The bug is in the default theme's style.css:

ol li, #sidebar ul ol li {
        list-style: decimal outside;
       }

That leading "ol li" seems like it should be "#sidebar ol li" instead. Making that change will get rid of the numbers being incorrectly added to the unordered lists (which do fit that rule, given that they are "ol li ul li" and there's no overriding list-style-type for ul li's given).

New patch attached, based on Otto42's suggestion.

This still does not solve the problem. I was also having it. It seems this is what's specifically causing the problem:

.entry ul li:before, #sidebar ul ul li:before {
	content: "\00BB \0020";
	}

This can be added to fix the glitch:

.entry ol li:before {
	content: "";
	}

However, now ol's look kind of funny. On my site I also added another line to .entry ol to make the ol's look right:

	list-style: decimal inside;

er whoops, better idea. instead of adding the list-style to .entry ol add this:

	text-indent: 0px;

Just wondering what the status of this one is...?

I really feel like the following should be added to 4518.diff:

.entry ol {
	text-indent: 0px;
	}

The code in 4518.diff + that snippet and it would be perfectly fixed. Please note that 4518b.diff does NOT fix this issue.

See also #4449

Replying to mrmist:

See also #4449

It seems that the problems are in IE7, better also check the solutions in #4449.

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4518#comment:14

n/a now we have Twenty Ten

Is this ticket still valid now that Twenty Eleven is the default theme, and Default isn't included any more?

Replying to GaryJ:

Is this ticket still valid now that Twenty Eleven is the default theme, and Default isn't included any more?

The theme is still available on wordpress.org, which is why Nacin re-opened it after I closed it. Doesn't look like there's a lot of interest in fixing it though.