Template talk:Hlist

class=inline not working outside demo

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

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

with

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

Giant planets (

• J
• S
• U
• N

).

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

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:

Giant planets (

• J
• S
• U
• N

).

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

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)

I've been trying and wondering why it doesn't work, having checked the documentation & played in the sandbox and everything. Came here to report it, and I'm not the only one. Yeah, it should be added to the documentation, it would've saved me time. Slovborg (talk) 21:01, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

"Template:Hlist1" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Template:Hlist1 has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 April 18 § Template:Hlist1 until a consensus is reached. HouseBlaster (talk · he/him) 02:02, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Template for list of alternatives?

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)

I'm confused by what you mean with the [[]] and {{}} notations. Are you saying it should output uninterpreted wikitext along the lines of {{template}}? Arlo James Barnes 04:48, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

hlist: non-breaking space before •

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)

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)

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

 Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 00:36, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

param for alternate separator

Some of the threads above get at this topic, but instead of doing it with the style parameter, couldn't it be supplied with a dedicated param? Arlo James Barnes 04:53, 11 January 2026 (UTC)