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Adding Notes or Comments Between List Items

After creating a simple or multi-level list, you may want to include comments between items without interrupting the flow of the list. You can do this by using paragraph items in a list.

Here is a typical list with the tag bars shown to the left of the content.

Notice in the previous example that the entire list has an <ol> tag, and each line in the list has an <li> tag. Each time you press Enter after a line, a new <li> tag is created.

Let's say that we want to add two comments after #2. By turning #2 into a paragraph item, a <p> tag is added after the <li> tag in that line, and in each line that you create immediately after that line.

The paragraph item icon is displayed at the beginning of the final paragraph item in that <li> tag. If you click this icon, that line becomes a new list item with its own <li> tag and a number (or bullet, if used) is displayed before it. For example, if we were to click the item in the image above, the resulting list would look as follows.

Finally, if you want to return a line in a list from a paragraph item to a simple item (without the <p> tag), you can do so easily.

How to add paragraph items in a list

1. Open the topic.
2. Do one of the following:
   1. If the tag block bars are not shown to the left of the content, click at the bottom of the editor. See About Structure Bars.
   2. Hover over the li tag bar next to the item where you want to add a paragraph item until the cursor is a hand . Then click it.
   3. In the popup, select Make Paragraph Item(s). A <p> tag is added after the <li> tag.

   OR

   1. Click in the list where you want to add a paragraph item.
   2. Click the down arrow next to the List Actions button . This button is located on the Text Format toolbar. If you do not see this toolbar, select View>Toolbars>Text Format.
   3. Select Make Paragraph Item(s). A <p> tag is added after the <li> tag.
3. To add lines without a number or bullet, simply press Enter on your keyboard and type your content.
4. To continue the numbering or the bullets, click the paragraph item icon . Doing this simply starts another <li> tag.
5. Press CTRL+S or click to save your work.

How to return a paragraph item in a list to a simple item

1. Open the topic.
2. Do one of the following:
   1. If the tag block bars are not shown to the left of the content, click at the bottom of the editor. See About Structure Bars.
   2. Hover over the li tag bar next to a line where a paragraph item exists (an <li> tag followed by a <p> tag) until the cursor is a hand . Then click it.
   3. In the popup, select Make Simple Item(s). The <p> tag is removed.

   OR

   1. Click in the list where a paragraph item exists (an <li> tag followed by a <p> tag).
   2. Click the down arrow next to the List Actions button . This button is located on the Text Format toolbar. If you do not see this toolbar, select View>Toolbars>Text Format.
   3. Select Make Simple Item(s). The <p> tag is removed.
3. Press CTRL+S or click to save your work.

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