When bulleted lists are published in a blog, text begins on the next line after the bullet

Question

I've checked the XML source, and 
 and *  are formatted exactly as you'd expect. However, when the blog containing the bulleted list is published, instead of this:

* a;sldkfja;lsdkfj
* asd;lfka;lsdfja;lsdfj
* as;ldfkja;lsdkfja

... we see this:

* 
a;sldkfja;lsdkfj
* 
asd;lfka;lsdfja;lsdfj
* 
as;ldfkja;lsdkfja

AnnWorley · Answer

I tested bullets in a blog post on Confluence 6.2.4 and the bullets were published as expected, not as in your example.

* I understand you tested on some normal wiki pages and the bullets work. Does the blog post's space have any customizations?
* Are blog posts publishing as expected in other spaces?
* If you create a new blog post in the same space, do the bullets publish above the text lines as in your description?

I would like to locally restore the storage format of the page where you are seeing the issue with the bullets.

Please:

* Click on the ellipsis (…) in the top right-hand corner of the published blog, and select View Storage Format from the dropdown.
* Copy the storage format and paste it into a reply on this forum - add Formats>Code block to the storage format using the forum editor's Formats pulldown.

I look forward to examining the storage format from the affected page.

unknown · Answer

We're using Confluence Server 6.2.4.

Bulleted items are being typed in from scratch, and the bulleted paragraph style applied.

This only seems to be happening in this blog. I haven't seen it in any of the normal wiki pages.

AnnWorley · Answer

Welcome to the Atlassian Community online forum, Freda.

I tested bulleted lists on blog posts in Confluence Server 6.x and Confluence Cloud. I could not reproduce the issue.

I found a few bugs referencing bullets in Confluence but did not find a match for what you are experiencing.

Please let me know:

* What version of Confluence you are seeing this behavior in.
* How you are inserting the bullets (for example, using the * or selecting the text and choosing bulleted list from the format menu, or pasting from a Word doc)

I look forward to hearing more about the issue.