620340 - Templates consisting in numbered lists are incorrectly interpreted leaving a blank row at the end

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 617562

(support.mozilla.org :: Knowledge Base Software, task)

Description

[Underpass]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; it; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13
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Sorry if I did not manage to be more accurate in the description: it seems that if a template consists in a numbered list (like [[T:safemode]] and [[T:clearCookiesCache]]), seems that Kitsune adds a blank row at the end making the following numbered entries of the list starting from 1 again.

This happens for example in the article

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic%20Troubleshooting

at the paragraph 

- Troubleshoot extensions and themes

The same happens if you substitute [[T:safemode]] with [[T:clearCookiesCache]] and activate the preview. 

The problem does not seem bound to the template itself: I tried to edit one of them adding more numbered entries (#) at the end and these are correctly interpreted. So I think the problem happens when you use such a template in an article.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Alice Wyman]

Michael Verdi commented on the numbered list problem with the safemode template here:

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forums/contributors/704848

Comment 2

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

So the markup here is, for example:

[[Template:Something with a Numbered List]]
# List item 3
# List item 4

This isn't supported. There's bug 617562 already, but as I said there, I'm not even sure we can support this.

A couple work arounds:

* Word the template to work as a nested list, and do
# Something
  [[Template:Etc...]]
# List item 3
# List item 4

* Move the rest of the list into the template, possibly use template args.

* Replace the last two list items with:
<ol start="3">
<li>List item 3</li>
<li>List item 4</li>
</ol>