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Lists provide a way to structure text in a clear manner as well as group items that belong together. CKEditor lets you create two sorts of lists: bulleted (unordered) and numbered (ordered) lists.

Bulleted Lists

Bulleted lists are useful when you want to group a few items that do not need to appear in any particular order.

Creating a Bulleted List

To create a bulleted list, press the button on the toolbar. A default list marker will appear at the beginning of the line of text that contains the mouse cursor and the line will become indented. If you want to add further list items, press Enter on your keyboard. The cursor will move to the next line with a list marker placed at its beginning.

A bulleted list with default list markers inserted by CKEditor

The list is continued automatically as long as you keep pressing Enter once. If you want to suppress list creation, press Enter twice or click the button again. The cursor will then move to the next, unindented paragraph.

Another method to add a bulleted list is to select a couple of paragraphs and press the button on the toolbar. Each paragraph will then become a separate list item.

Bulleted List Properties

In CKEditor you can customize the appearance of the bulleted list and modify the list marker. In order to change the list style, open the list context menu, clicking the right mouse button on a list item, and choose the Bulleted List Properties menu option.

The bulleted list context menu with the Bulleted List Properties option

The Bulleted List Properties dialog window lets you configure the appearance of the list marker.

The Bulleted List Properties dialog window in CKEditor

The Type drop-down list contains the following options:

• Circle – the list marker becomes a round shape that is empty in the middle.
• Disc – the list marker becomes a round shape filled in the middle.
• Square – the list marker becomes a four-sided shape filled in the middle.

Removing a Bulleted List

If you want to remove list formatting, leaving the text of the list items intact, select the list in the document and click the button on the toolbar. The list markers and indentation will be removed and each of the former list items will become a separate paragraph.

Bulleted list formatting removed from the document in CKEditor

Numbered Lists

Creating

In order to create and numbered list user ought to press File:CKEditor insertorderlist.pngon the toolbar. The text which was beside the cursor will automatically gain number one on the list.

Example:

In order to set next numbered line, user should press ENTER. After that another numbered line will appear.

Example:

File:CKEditor numberedlist example2.png

Another way to set a numbered list is to highlight the lines which should be listed and press File:CKEditor insertorderlist.png.

User can easily stop a numbered list by pressing File:CKEditor insertorderlist.png button again. The function will be deactivated.

Properties

In order to change the list's properties user should press right mouse button on any place inside the list. A context menu will appear:

File:CKEditor numbered context.png

User should select Numbered list Properties. A popup window called "Numbered List Properties" will appear:

File:CKEditor numbered properties.png

• Start: specifies which number will be fist in numbered list.
• Type: specifies type of list. User may choose one of the following options:
  • Lower Roman (i, ii, iii, iv, v, etc.)
  • Upper Roman (I, II, III, IV, V, etc.)
  • Lower Alpha (a, b, c, d, e, etc.)
  • Upper Aplha (A, B, C, D, E, etc.)
  • Decimal (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.)

File:CKEditor numbered properties type.png