Paragraphs inside a bullet list in a writer field

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I’ve added a bullet list to a writer field, and the HTML output contains paragraphs inserted inside <li> tags. In Chrome and Firefox this results with text breaking to a new line after a marker. Is there a way to solve this issue?

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Currently unsolvable, see Bug: list items contain <p> tags in writer field · Issue #3506 · getkirby/kirby · GitHub

So you would have to remove these tags programmatically at output.

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I used this regex code to filter out the <p> from the <li>:

<?php
$list = $block->text();
// Remove <p> tags within <li> elements
$list = preg_replace('/<li>\s*<p>(.*?)<\/p>\s*<\/li>/', '<li>$1</li>', $list);
?>
<?= $list; ?>

Note that this snippets needs to be in your snippets/blocks/text.php if you also using the writer.

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I was coming to this same conclusion, thank you for posting :slight_smile: