{"id":463,"date":"2006-04-12T23:49:26","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T07:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2006-04-17T19:24:36","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T03:24:36","slug":"nested-lists-and-nested-blockquotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/12\/nested-lists-and-nested-blockquotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nested Lists and Nested Blockquotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hit some issues with my previous entry where I wanted to have nested lists and nested blockquotes. However, WordPress’ automatic XHTML correction broke it every time.<\/p>\n

So I went searching for ways to get around this. Apparently you can disable the automatic XHTML correct by going to Options > Writing ><\/strong> and uncheck the WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically<\/u> option.<\/p>\n

After disabling that I was able to manually insert tags where before it wouldn’t let me. So first…<\/p>\n

Nested Lists<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Turns out that what I was doing was incorrect and W3 Validator threw an error, even though my lists showed up correctly. I then found this site: XHTML vs HTML<\/a>: A common mistake in nested lists, is to forget that the inside list must be within a li element.<\/em><\/p>\n

Incorrect<\/strong>:
\n<ul>
\n  <li>level 1<\/li>
\n  <ul>
\n    <li>level 2<\/li>
\n    <li>level 2<\/li>
\n  <\/ul>
\n<\/ul><\/code><\/p>\n

Correct<\/strong>:
\n<ul>
\n  <li>level 1
\n  <ul>
\n    <li>level 2<\/li>
\n    <li>level 2<\/li>
\n  <\/ul><\/li>
\n<\/ul><\/code><\/p>\n

The above code would generate this:<\/p>\n