Title: Visual Editor Functionality Change in 3.1
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Visual Editor Functionality Change in 3.1

 *  [RobWatt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robwatt/)
 * (@robwatt)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-functionality-change-in-31/)
 * To whom this may concern, and thank you to those that have read this:
 * I’ve noticed a strange change in behavior on how the Visual editor works in the
   3.1 version, and I have reinstalled to verify.
 * Previously, I could reduce the levels of a listed item by pressing enter on the
   item. Now, when I press enter on a blank listed item, it does nothing.
 * If I want to reduce the level, I must use the icons.
 * Not sure if this was ever an expected behavior or not, but I did grow accustomed
   to it, and I have actively used it since I started using WordPress last year.
 * Here’s an example:
 *     ```
       <ul>
   
       <li>level 1
       <ul>
       <li>Level 2</li>
       <li>Level 2</li>
       <li></li>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 * Normally, I’d be able to press enter again at the last list item, and it would
   reduce the indent back to level 1. Now it just sits at level 2 and does nothing.

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 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-functionality-change-in-31/#post-1939640)
 * I usually used backspace to back up a level in a list…. However, I haven’t tested
   it still works lately. More of a suggestion
 * (also, any code on here has to go in backtics or the screen can go haywire, as
   you can see) 😉
 *  Thread Starter [RobWatt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robwatt/)
 * (@robwatt)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-functionality-change-in-31/#post-1939714)
 * Yeah thanks for the code tip 🙂 I thought I had it correct, but I might have 
   missed a character. Didn’t see how to go back and edit the post.
 * I tried backspace just now, and it deletes the empty list item and brings you
   back to the end of the line of the previous list item.

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 * Last reply from: [RobWatt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robwatt/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-functionality-change-in-31/#post-1939714)
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