Applying an Unordered list (bullet points) to a post

Kazza242

As well as the change to the editor option from standard to enhanced, which made it very difficult for me to update my Mini Cash ISAs: The Best ISAs currently available List sticky. As I couldn't see the tags to edit them! I've now switched the editor back to standard which has resolved it.

However, I've also noticed that the when I include a List (bullet points) in a post the coding has changed. It now makes including a list in a post more complicated E.g. before I used to input the following code (without the spaces):

[ LIST ]
[*]write text

[*]write text

[ /LIST ] at the end of the list

Now after every bulleted item the list is being closed with a double '/'. e.g.

[ LIST ]

[*]write text
[ /LIST ][ /LIST ]

[ LIST ]

[*]write text
[ /LIST ][ /LIST ]

Also it is now more difficult to insert a 'return' between each item in the list. I had to edit my ISAs sticky a number of times to get the returns to stay. It was bunching all of the text together which made the post pretty much illegible. Can this be resolved?

Former_MSE_Antelo

Hey Kazza,

I have been looking into this but have not been able to duplicate your issue. Have tried both the standard and enhanced editor and lists work as they are meant to :

[ LIST ]
[*]write text
[*]write text
[ /LIST ]

Is this issue only on an existing post you have? Does it function correctly when making new posts?

If it is just in the one post, it could simply be that your post has become "corrupt" during the ammending of certain WYSIWYG errors we had after the new site launch. Have you tried clearing your cache and deleting temp internet files and then trying again?

If that doesn't work can you try the following:
1. Empty your post (cut and paste all its contents into textpad so you don't lose it) save the post with some random text.
2. Now in the content you pasted into notepad, ammend all the bbcode to what you think is correct (such as the above list bbcode)
3. Go into advance edit of your saved empty post, paste the fixed content from your notepad file and save.

Hopefully this will sort that issue out.

Sorry for any inconveniences,



EDIT: I managed to replicate your post using the correct LIST bbcode. See following post. If you want me to send you the code i used pm me with your email

Former_MSE_Antelo

I don't know about anyone else, but with all the cash isa launches over the last month it's getting more difficult to decide which one(s) to choose. I thought it might be useful to list the options available in one place, as it makes it easier to compare them and make the right choice(s):

**Please note: This list is continually updated. New ISAs are added as they launch and withdrawn ISAs will be removed from the list.

Mini cash isa's for 'new money' only (i.e. they don't accept transfers in):

• NS&I Direct ISA - 6.05% :starmod: NEW RATE :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? Yes. Guarantees to pay BOE base rate + 0.55% until 5th April 2008. Minimum deposit: £1,000. Minimum further deposit £250 (£100 by standing order).
  Operated via: Internet and Telephone
• Egg cash ISA - 6.05%
  Rate guarantee? Yes, but not at the current rate. Will be at least equal to BOE base rate until 05.04.09.
  Minimum deposit: £1. Operated via: Internet
• National Counties BS Guaranteed ISA - 6.01% :starmod: NEW RATE :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? Yes, but not at the current rate. Guarantees to be at least 0.30% above BOE base rate until 05.04.08.
  Minimum deposit: £1. Operated via: Post, Telephone and Branch.
  Notes: If you transfer out before April 6th 2008, you will face a 10 days' loss of interest. The ISA converts into a Second Issue ISA from 06.04.08, currently paying 5.51%.
  Important: Transfers in are not accepted until after 06.04.08
• ING Direct cash ISA - 6.00% AER
  Rate guarantee? Yes. 6.55% guaranteed for 6 months from the day the account is opened. Then reverts to a Cash ISA variable rate of 5.13% p.a.
  Minimum deposit: £1. Operated via: Internet and Telephone.

Fixed rate mini cash isa's for 'new money' only (i.e. they don't accept transfers in):

1 Year deals:

• Bradford & Bingley 1 year fixed rate ISA issue 8 - 6.15%.
  Minimum deposit: £3,000
• Market Harborough BS Nicer ISA issue 10 - 6.00% (fixed until 31.05.08).
  Minimum deposit: £3,000.
  This new issue of Market Harborough BS' 6.00% ISA became available from 03/05/2007.

2 Year deals:

• Norwich & Peterborough BS 2 Year Fixed Rate Mini Cash ISA - 5.90% (fixed for 2 years from account opening). Minimum deposit: £3,000
• Principality BS Fixed Rate Cash ISA 23 - 5.80% (fixed until 05.04.2009). :starmod: NEW :starmod:
  Minimum deposit: £3,000.

Variable rate mini cash isa's that accept transfers in:

• Abbey Direct ISA - 6.00% (for balances of £9,000+) :starmod: NEW RATE :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? No. Minimum deposit: £9,000 (to qualify for the higher rate).
  Operated via: Post, Telephone and Internet.
  Notes: 5.75% is paid for total balances between £1 - £8,999. Incl. 0.50% variable rate bonus until 01.05.08. Rates guaranteed to match any increase in BOE base rate until 01.05.2008
• Kent Reliance BS Direct mini cash ISA - 5.96% :starmod: NEW RATE :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? No. Minimum deposit: £1. Operated via: Post
• Stafford Railway BS mini cash ISA - 5.90% (for balances of £10,000+) :starmod: NEW :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? No. Minimum deposit: £10,000 (to qualify for the higher rate).
  Operated via: Branch and Post.
  Notes: 5.45% is paid for total balances between £1 - £9,999.
  Important: To open this ISA you must be an existing Stafford Railway Building Society member
• Yorkshire BS E-ISA - 5.80% :starmod: NEW RATE :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? Yes, but not at the current rate. Will not be more than 1.00% below Base Rate.
  Minimum deposit: £10. Operated via: Internet
• Bradford & Bingley eISA - 5.80% :starmod: NEW RATE :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? Yes, but not at the current rate. Will at least match BOE base rate until 30.06.2008.
  Minimum deposit: £1,000. Operated via: Internet
• Clydesdale Bank - 5.80% (for balances of £15,000+) :starmod: NEW :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? No. Minimum deposit: £1. Operated via: Telephone and Branch.
  Notes: 5.55% is paid for total balances between £12,000 - £14,999
• National Counties BS mini cash ISA issue 2 - 5.76% :starmod: NEW :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? No. Minimum deposit: £1. Operated via: Telephone, Branch and Post
• BMW eSaver ISA - 5.75% :starmod: NEW :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? No. Minimum deposit: £1. Operated via: Internet, Telephone and Post.
  Notes: Operated by Newcastle BS
• Leek United BS mini cash ISA - 5.75% :starmod: NEW :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? No. Minimum deposit: £1. Operated via: Branch
• Skipton BS mini cash ISA - 5.75% :starmod: NEW RATE :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? Yes, but not at the current rate. Will not be more than 1.00% below Base Rate.
  Minimum deposit: £50. Operated via: Branch.

Variable rate (30 days notice) mini cash isa's that accept transfers in:

• Ruffler Bank (30 days notice) cash ISA - 6.14% AER :starmod: NEW RATE :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? No.
  Minimum deposit: £15,000. Operated via: Post.
  Important: Have not subscribed to the Banking Code, but is a member of the FSA compensation scheme
• Monmouthshire BS (30 days notice) cash ISA - 5.80% :starmod: NEW RATE :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? No. Minimum deposit: £10. Operated via: Branch and Post
• Loughborough BS (30 days notice) cash ISA - 5.75% :starmod: NEW :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? No. Minimum deposit: £10. Operated via: Branch and Post.

Fixed rate mini cash isa's that accept transfers in:

1 Year deals:

• Marks & Spencer Money Fixed rate ISA 6.16% (fixed for 1 year from account opening). :starmod: NEW :starmod:
  Minimum deposit: £500.
  This new fixed rate ISA became available from 20/06/2007.
• Nationwide Fixed Rate ISA Bond 6.05% (fixed for one or two years). :starmod: NEW :starmod:
  Minimum deposit: £1.
  This new issue of Nationwide's fixed rate ISA became available from 06/06/2007.
• Northern Rock 6.01% issue 54 (fixed until 15.07.2008).
  Minimum deposit: £500. :starmod: NEW :starmod:
  This new issue of Northern Rock's 6.01% ISA became available from 21/06/2007.

Deals that fall between 1 - 2 years:

• Newcastle BS Fixed Rate Options ISA 8 5.90% (fixed until 30.01.2009).
  Minimum deposit: £500. :starmod: NEW :starmod:
  Notes: Transfers in allowed until 16/07/2007.
  This new fixed rate ISA became available from 08/06/2007.

2 Year deals:

• Marks & Spencer Money Fixed rate ISA 6.06% (fixed for 2 years from account opening). :starmod: NEW :starmod:
  Minimum deposit: £500.
  This new fixed rate ISA became available from 20/06/2007.
• Halifax Fixed Rate ISA Saver 6.05% (fixed for 2 years from account opening).
  Minimum deposit: £3,000. :starmod: NEW :starmod:
  This new fixed rate ISA rate became available from 01/06/2007.
• Nationwide Fixed Rate ISA Bond 6.05% :starmod: NEW :starmod:
  (See details under 1 Year deals above).
  This new issue of Nationwide's fixed rate ISA became available from 06/06/2007.
• Derbyshire BS 6.00% issue 23 (fixed until 31.05.2009).
  Minimum deposit: £1,000.
  This new issue of Derbyshire BS' 6.00% ISA became available from 30/04/2007.

Mini cash isa's that accept transfers in (with strict conditions applied)

• Abbey Super ISA - 8.10%
  Rate guarantee? Yes. Until the 1st May 2008. Then reverts to a Direct ISA from 01.05.2008. The rate will then be just 5.50% (balances £9,000+) or 5.25% (balances £1 - £8,999) as the Direct ISA 0.50% bonus expires 01.05.2008.
  Minimum deposit: £1. Operated via: Post, Internet and Telephone.
  Important: You have to deposit the same amount into the Guaranteed Growth Plan (this money is tied up for 3 years).
  *Personally, I would avoid this isa.*

Regular Savings mini cash isa's (with strict conditions applied)

These isa's are aimed at savers who don’t have a lump sum available to deposit at the outset. They usually require a deposit be made into the ISA each month. Often a higher rate of interest is given, but restrictions often apply to the number of withdrawals and missed deposits made, which if exceeded can mean a dramatic drop in the rate of interest paid

• Scarborough BS My Savings ISA - 6.55% :starmod: NEW RATE :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? Yes, but not at the current rate. Guarantees to be no more than 1% below the BOE Base Rate.
  Minimum operating deposit: £10. Min - Max monthly deposit: £10 - £250.
  Further additions permitted? Yes, unlimited additional payments permitted provided £250 pm not exceeded.
  Operated via: Branch and Post.
  Number of Monthly Payments Required (per annum): 10.
  Number of withdrawals permitted (per annum): 1.
  Penalty for missing the required number of payments: 3.00% loss.
  Penalty for exceeding the maximum number of withdrawals: 3.00% loss
• Dudley BS Regular Saver ISA - 5.90% :starmod: NEW RATE :starmod:
  Rate guarantee? No.
  Minimum operating deposit: £100. Min - Max monthly deposit: £10 - £250.
  Further additions permitted? No, only one payment permitted per month.
  Operated via: Branch and Post.
  Number of Monthly Payments Required (per annum): 12.
  Number of withdrawals permitted (per annum): 1.
  Penalty for missing the required number of payments: If balance above £1,000 converts to Instant Mini Cash ISA paying 5.65%. If balance under £1,000 account closed.
  Important: Available to existing customers and new customers who live within 25 mile radius of branches only
• Ipswich BS Regular Saver ISA - 5.60%
  Rate guarantee? No.
  Minimum operating deposit: £25. Min - Max monthly deposit: £20 - £250.
  Further additions permitted? No, only one payment permitted per month.
  Operated via: Branch and Post.
  Number of Monthly Payments Required (per annum): 12.
  Number of withdrawals permitted (per annum): 0.
  Penalty for missing the required number of payments: Account will be transferred to a Premier ISA account paying 4.20%.

If anyone can think of any other isa's I may have missed please do suggest them.

Kazza242

MSE_Antelo wrote: »

Hey Kazza,

I have been looking into this but have not been able to duplicate your issue. Have tried both the standard and enhanced editor and lists work as they are meant to :

[ LIST ]
[*]write text
[*]write text
[ /LIST ]

Is this issue only on an existing post you have? Does it function correctly when making new posts?

If it is just in the one post, it could simply be that your post has become "corrupt" during the ammending of certain WYSIWYG errors we had after the new site launch. Have you tried clearing your cache and deleting temp internet files and then trying again?

If that doesn't work can you try the following:
1. Empty your post (cut and paste all its contents into textpad so you don't lose it) save the post with some random text.
2. Now in the content you pasted into notepad, ammend all the bbcode to what you think is correct (such as the above list bbcode)
3. Go into advance edit of your saved empty post, paste the fixed content from your notepad file and save.

Hopefully this will sort that issue out.

Sorry for any inconveniences,

EDIT: I managed to replicate your post using the correct LIST bbcode. See following post. If you want me to send you the code i used pm me with your email

Many thanks for looking into this MSE Antelo. The issue was occurring both when adding lists to new posts, as well as when editing my ISAs sticky. However, the issue no longer seems to be affecting lists in new posts.

The ISAs thread on the other hand it still displaying the problem. I think you're right about possible corruption to my ISAs post. At the moment when I try to edit the post I've noticed that the code behind it has changed from what it should be. After every bullet pointed item there are two "[/LIST][/LIST]" rather than just one "[/LIST]" at the end of the list and it is difficult to insert "returns" between each bulleted item. E.g.

NS&I Direct ISA - 6.05% NEW RATE
Rate guarantee? Yes. Guarantees to pay BOE base rate + 0.55% until 5th April 2008. Minimum deposit: £1,000. Minimum further deposit £250 (£100 by standing order).
Operated via: Internet and Telephone

Egg cash ISA - 6.05%
Rate guarantee? Yes, but not at the current rate. Will be at least equal to BOE base rate until 05.04.09.
Minimum deposit: £1. Operated via: Internet

The above is how it was set out before the changes to board to resolve the WYSIWYG errors, but now the items in the post are bunched together. I will see if I can get it to revert back to how it was, as it is a post that I need to edit very often.

EDIT: I think I've resolved the issue now. I've edited out all of the multiple instances of "[/LIST][/LIST]" leaving just "[ LIST ]" at the top and closing it at the bottom "[ /LIST ]". This has allowed me to add the returns so that the text is once again broken into paragraphs which makes the post easier to read. Hopefully, it will be OK from here on. I've made a backup of my post to my hard disk in case a problem arises again. Thanks again.