Help:Display a bulleted list in a table

Semantic extension(s):	-/-
Further extension(s):	-/-
Keyword(s):	formatting · MediaWiki

Description:

If a template contains a section that looks like:

...
! Shopping list
| [[Has shopping list::{{{Shopping list|}}}
...

...and in a page that calls that template, the value for the "Shopping list" field (whether or not it was populated by a form) looks like:

* Apples
* Bananas
* Carrots

...then the first line will be displayed incorrectly: it will show up as "* Apples", instead of "Apples" after a bullet. This is because, in MediaWiki, "*" is only recognized as a bullet in a list if it is the very first thing on a line. (The same holds for "#", for numbered lists.)

The solution for this is simple: add a newline to the template, so that it instead looks like:

...
! Shopping list
|
[[Has shopping list::{{{Shopping list|}}}
...