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Using |class=inline works on the doc page, but doesn't in real life. The difference is whether {{markup}} is used - compare

Giant planets ({{hlist|class=inline|[[Jupiter|J]]|[[Saturn|S]]|[[Uranus|U]]|[[Neptune|N]]}}).

with

Giant planets ({{hlist|class=inline|[[Jupiter|J]]|[[Saturn|S]]|[[Uranus|U]]|[[Neptune|N]]}}).

Giant planets (

).

--Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 14:21, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. You need to wrap the whole line in a block element ({{markup}} uses <td>...</td>) in order to "kill" the implicit <p>...</p>, such as:

It's not optimal. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 16:04, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't the documentation mention the work-around unless and until it is fixed? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 14:05, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I find the mid dots rather small for some displays and so I would like them to be changed to the slightly larger • character. However, I expect that such a global change might not go down too well. Could we instead add some CSS so that we can say something like {{hlist |class=inline,bull | ...?

with the updated version — GhostInTheMachine • Talk • All • Help ... — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 11:23, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No interest? Fixed it for me by adding: mw.util.addCSS('.hlist li::after {content: " • " !important;} .hlist li:last-child::after {content: none !important;}'); to my local user script — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 17:39, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Is there a template for creating a list of alternatives separated by the Or ("pipe") character, e.g., {{alternatives|foo|bar|baz}} rendering as [[foo|bar|baz]] or {{foo|bar|baz}}? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 15:55, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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In Template:Hlist/styles.css on line 74 (content: " · ";), I would like to request that the space before the ‘·’ be changed to a non-breaking space, for a more consistent look in which word-wrapped horizontal lists don't end up with some lines ending in a dot and some beginning with one. That is the traditional behaviour from back when we faked horizontal lists using {{·}} or {{•}}; those templates start with a non-breaking space, and I see no reason why it shouldn't carry over to hlist. (Note, though, that a HTML entity like   won't work in CSS, so it needs to be a literal non-breaking space: “ ” \a0, as recommended below.) – McDutchie (talk) 05:55, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

No, it needn't (and shouldn't) be. You can use the value \a0 as used in these two rules:

.hlist ol > li::before {
	content: " " counter(listitem) "\a0";
}

.hlist dd ol > li:first-child::before,
.hlist dt ol > li:first-child::before,
.hlist li ol > li:first-child::before {
	content: " (" counter(listitem) "\a0";
}

that is to say

.hlist dd::after,
.hlist li::after {
	content: "\a0· ";
	font-weight: bold;
}

--Redrose64 🦌 (talk) 13:25, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for that. Edited. – McDutchie (talk) 16:01, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]