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Semicolon option?[edit]

Interesting template. It might be useful to have an option like |semi= to change the separator from a comma to a semicolon. – Jonesey95 (talk) 07:58, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonesey95: Your slightest wish ...

{{cslist | first item | second item | third item | etc}} →

first item
second item
third item
etc

{{cslist | first item | second item | third item | etc |semi=true}} →

first item
second item
third item
etc

Cheers --RexxS (talk) 17:20, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Groovy. I polished up the documentation. I think this will be useful. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:08, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A slight improvement[edit]

Hi, RexxS. Is this possible to delete the redundant commas? So it would work like {{hlist}}.

It reads | as an entry. For example:

{{cslist|first item|||}} →

first item

{{cslist | {{{first item|}}} | {{{second item|}}} | {{{third item|}}} | {{{etc|}}}}} →

EDIT: I have found a template named {{Comma separated entries}} which doesn't have such problem. What differs these two?

All the best, --Toghrul Rahimli (talk) 06:33, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for spotting that, Toghrul. I've fixed the issue now, so that empty items don't show up in the list.

The purpose of {{Cslist}} and {{Hlist}} is to create genuine html lists – i.e. they are marked up in the html with <ul>...</ul> and <li>...</li>. That helps them to be more accessible and functional for screen readers. The templates like {{Comma separated entries}} depend on Module:Separated entries, which creates plain text, not the lists that a screen reader could make use of. You can see the difference if you inspect them using the browser inspector.

So it's probably better to use {{Comma separated entries}} in running prose, but use Cslist, Hlist, etc. in infoboxes, tables, and other places where a screen reader expects a list, especially if it's a long list (perhaps more than a couple of entries). HTH --RexxS (talk) 07:39, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@RexxS:, thank you for your fix and detailed explanation. Helped a lot. Cheers!--Toghrul Rahimli (talk) 07:44, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]