CSS for bulleted un/ordered lists in wp-admin not working

[trepmal]

Ordered and unordered lists in the admin are a bit naked, even when the predefined classes are used.

The classes (ul-disc, ul-square, ol-decimal) aren't used much in core. At a glance, it looks like ul-disc is the only class used, and it adds bullets to the list of files that would be deleted upon removing a plugins or network-activated themes.

Here's my test plugin: ​https://gist.github.com/1436969 - creates a page and meta box, each with 5 lists.
ul, ul.ul-disc, ul.ul-square, ol, ol.ol-decimal

The ul/ol classes aren't quite specific enough to overwrite list-style:none; given to unclassed <li>s. Patch just makes the selectors a bit more specific.

[trepmal]

The classes seemed to be working just fine on 3.2.1 - but maybe I tested too quickly...

[SergeyBiryukov]

With wp-admin.dev-bullets.diff

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to trepmal:

The classes seemed to be working just fine on 3.2.1

Yeah, it's actually a regression. Seems to be introduced in [18577].

I've made screenshots to illustrate.

[azaozz]

Looks like in 3.2 and earlier the reset was only on the parents ul, ol {list-style: none;} and then OLs were set to list-style-type: decimal; so they were always with numbers.

To fully restore that we need to change:

ul li,
ol li {
	list-style: none;
}

to:

ul {
	list-style: none;
}

[koopersmith]

I've uploaded a new patch that tweaks the selectors in attachment:wp-admin.dev-bullets.diff​ and includes attachment:19453.patch​.

For the first patch — those selectors are used in 3.2, but not to specify the list-style property. See ​these selectors in the 3.2 branch.

[azaozz]

Looks good.

[ryan]

In [19576]:

Fix list styling. Props koopersmith, azaozz, trepmal. fixes #19453