The Convert Text To XHTML List Feature

Why Isn’t Copying and Pasting Lists Good Enough?

Copying and pasting a series of items in your Web pages is good enough if you don’t mind losing the semantic meaning of the content. But that’s exactly what happens when WYSIWYG editors interpret bulleted lists as plain text separated by break lines (<br> tags).

The Solution

This feature converts a selection of text into an unordered list (<ul>...</ul> ), containing a list of items (<li>...</li>), by automatically recognizing line breaks. At the same time it extracts and merges the style from the different items with those from the page.

The before and the validated after:

Learn more about converting text to XHTML lists at:

• Lists Reference from the W3C Recommendation
• HTML Lists from the W3Schools
• CSS Design: Taming Lists from A List Apart