Editor not Recognizing Line Breaks While Formatting a List

[semrocc]

Since WordPress 4.0, I noticed that the editor no longer recognizes line breaks while setting up a List <li>

Example:

Item 1
Item 2
Item 3

When all items are highlighted and the "li" button in HTML mode is clicked, the following shows:

• Item 1
  Item 2
  Item 3

Previously, it would format things properly as below:

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3

Also, the editor sometimes thinks the whole post should be within the "li" items when trying to insert a list into a post...its a real challenge to post anything that uses "ul" or "ol".

[ocean90]

Duplicate of #29434.

[semrocc]

I'm not sure why this bug was marked as closed. Is there any ETA on when this will be fixed?

[Kelderic]

Replying to semrocc:

I'm not sure why this bug was marked as closed. Is there any ETA on when this will be fixed?

This has been reported before and it was decided that it works as is. For explanation see:

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/29434#comment:10

[semrocc]

So here's a scenario. I create a post in my Notepad Text Editor with a list and then copy and paste it into the WP editor. I then highlight the list as below:

Now look at the result after clicking the list button:

I certainly would not call this normal behavior as the editor wraps the whole post in a list.

[azaozz]

Replying to semrocc:

Can't reproduce this. Pasting 5 lines of plain text (separated by two line breaks after each) properly makes 5 paragraphs in the editor. Then selecting only 3 paragraphs and converting to a list works as expected.

[semrocc]

That's strange, I can reproduce it every time. What did you paste the text from?

[iseulde]

Duplicate of #29434.

Closing the first issue as a duplicate. Do you still experience the second issue? Could you please create a new ticket and give us some more information (exact steps to reproduce and the pasted text) if that's still the case?

[semrocc]

Done

#31642