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A line break in the wikimarkup of a list item will end not just the item but the entire list, and reset the counter on ordered lists. Separating unordered list items with blank lines may look approximately normal on-screen, but it creates many separate one-item lists, which is a problem for people using screen readers and is discouraged by the ...
An unordered (bulleted) list. The type of list item marker can be specified in an HTML attribute: < ul type = "foo" >; or in a CSS declaration: ul {list-style-type: foo;} – replacing foo with one of the following (the same values are used in HTML and CSS): disc (the default), square, or circle.
Lists made with bullets are called bulleted lists. The HTML element name for a bulleted list is " unordered list ", because the list items are not arranged in numerical order (as they would be in a numbered list ).
Use a bulleted (unordered) list by default, especially for long lists. Use a numbered (ordered) list only if there is a need to refer to items by number, the sequence of items is important, or the numbering exists in the real world (e.g., tracks on an album).
menu (Deprecated. use CSS instead.) list (no substitute, though the unordered list, is recommended) dir (Deprecated. use CSS instead.) list (no substitute, though the unordered list is recommended) isindex (Deprecated.) (element requires server-side support and is typically added to documents server-side, form and input elements can be used as ...
The HTML output of this is a trainwreck, especially for visually impaired users of screen-reader software, who are told, in series, that: an unordered list of one item has started; that list has ended; a description list with no term but one unassigned definition has started; that list ended; another unordered list of one item started, and ...
The template {} (for "list item dot") simulates, as closely as possible within the bounds of differences between browsers, the appearance of the bullet used by Wikipedia in unordered lists. Its variants {} and {} do the same, with minor enhancements for more consistent list appearance in certain cases, as documented below.
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