How indent lists when editing a post?

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The discussion revolves around indenting lists in Discourse posts. MLModel asked for the easiest way to create indented sublists. cpradio provided an example of an indented list and demonstrated the formatting. anon82356247 initially struggled to recreate the format but eventually understood it with the help of jomaxro. To create an indented bullet, type a space after a regular bullet, followed by a dash, space, and the text. codinghorror suggested visiting the interactive tutorials at http://commonmark.org/help for further guidance.

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I would like to have an indented sublist (bullet or numbered) under a top-level list item. I know how to do this in various formatting languages — HTML, Markdown, etc. — but I don’t see how to do it using the editing features of discourse. I realize I can use HTML, but. I probably could use MD too? What’s the easiest way of doing this?

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- parent list item
  - sub-item
- another parent
  - sub item again
  - yet another sub item
  • parent list item
    • sub-item
  • another parent
    • sub item again
    • yet another sub item
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Ok, how did you do that??? I can’t recreate it. :confused:

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The top half of @cpradio’s post is how he did it. Copy the stuff in the gray box right into a reply, and that’s how you can do it.

Essentially, to create a bullet, make sure there is a blank line above if not the first line, then type a dash, a space, then the line of text. To create an indented bullet, after a regular bullet, type a space, then dash, then space, then text.

Hope this helps!

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  • ok, got it!
  • Thanks!
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You may wish to work through the interactive tutorials at Markdown Reference – it’s a great resource!