Allow disabling automatic bullet list generation

✋ Feature Requests
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We have migrated big editorial site to Dato. In the news content it is common practice to start quotes with regular dash (-). Right now the structured content editor automatically formats these dashes to

    list items, which is not good. With some hacking it is possible to get rid of these but it has to be done manually each time.

    Would it be possible to get a setting for structured content editor to disable automatic bullet list generation. It would enhance the content editing experience a lot for news aditorial sites.

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Hi @kalle.laakso,

Welcome to the forum, and thanks for the suggestion!

Just to be sure we’re looking at the right situation, is this happening:

  • When you manually type a - at the start of a line?
  • When you’re copying & pasting content from another system / website / app?
  • When you’re using the CMA API to do a bulk migration?
  • Something else altogether?
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Hi Roger,

i’m talking about manually writing dash and then hitting space. It automatically renders bullet list (is it related to markdown to html conversion?). It is not an issue with copy-pasting or migrating content through API.

Thanks for the quick response!

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Thanks for clarifying! I made a note of this for our developers to evaluate. Please also remember to vote on this in the upper left of the page.

And FYI, as a workaround, in the HTML field type, you can hit CMD-Z on Mac (or CTRL-Z on Windows) to undo the automatic bullet points and turn it back into a dash.

Unfortunately, that won’t work with Structured Text fields — which aren’t Markdown or HTML, but our own format, DAST. The auto bullet points (and inability to undo them) is a UI quirk (or oversight on our part), not really a limitation of the underlying format itself.

For example, if you copy and paste - (dash and space) from another text editor into the Structured Text, it works. You can also type another character, like = (equal sign) or two dashes (``) instead of a single dash, finish the rest of the line, and then go back and change it back to a single dash afterward. (These are all just ways to fool the overly-clever autocorrect).