Title: Impossible to do nested lists
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Impossible to do nested lists

 *  [Jonno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonno/)
 * (@jonno)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/impossible-to-do-nested-lists/)
 * I’ve tried this in the WYSIWYG editor and the standard one in 2.01 and both don’t
   work. the WYSIWYG will create the list properly, but when you save it always 
   removes the nesting.
 * Before save you get this…which is good:
 * `<ul>
    <li>blah</li> <li>blah1</li> <li>blah2</li> </ul> <ul> <li>sub blah2</
   li> </ul> but after you save, in both editors, you end up with this…which makes
   nested lists impossible…so sad for the listmakers.
 * `<ul>
    <li>blah</li> <li>blah1</li> <li>blah2</li> </ul> <ul> <li>sub blah2</
   li> </ul>

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/impossible-to-do-nested-lists/#post-347187)
 * Options > Writing > WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically:
   uncheck it.
 *  Thread Starter [Jonno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonno/)
 * (@jonno)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/impossible-to-do-nested-lists/#post-347188)
 * okay, it’s officially impossible to report this problem…I give up…go to your 
   editor and try and do a nested list…or try and do one here in this forum….impossible.
 * Jon
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/impossible-to-do-nested-lists/#post-347189)
 * For posting small code snippets, please read carefully the instructions here 
   below the text input area: the “backticks” usually are located on top-left of
   your keyboard, where ~ [tilde] is.
 *  Thread Starter [Jonno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonno/)
 * (@jonno)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/impossible-to-do-nested-lists/#post-347190)
 * Thanks Moshu, I’ll do that, but it’s not invalid XHTML…is it?
 *  Thread Starter [Jonno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonno/)
 * (@jonno)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/impossible-to-do-nested-lists/#post-347192)
 * Thanks for cleaning up after me! I’m a zombie.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/impossible-to-do-nested-lists/#post-347195)
 * I don’t know, Your first example is the same as the second: none of them is nested.
   This one is nested:
    `<ul> <li>item1</li> <li>item2 <ul> <li>subitem1</li> <li
   >subitem2</li> </ul> </li> <li>item3</li> </ul>
 *  Thread Starter [Jonno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonno/)
 * (@jonno)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/impossible-to-do-nested-lists/#post-347204)
 * You are right…yours does work!
 * I guess you just can’t create them in the WYSISYG editor.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/impossible-to-do-nested-lists/#post-347208)
 * Basic rule #1: never write code in a wysiwyg gizmo…
    (this is NOT a WP thing –
   it’s the nature of wysiwyg)

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/impossible-to-do-nested-lists/#post-347208)
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