Add Bullet list option in Atomic Paragaph!

[benyten9]

Description

Can you please Bullet listing and numbered listing options in Atomic Paragph same like we have in v3 Text Editor? Currently it makes very difficult to do that in v4. Thank You.

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[dannSPM]

You just need to place a container and duplicate the text, styling it like a list; that's how CSS works.

[raizscanlon]

That's not helpful for laying out content quickly though. It's fine if all you need is one bullet point, icon-styled section, but ff you have a long piece of content with several sections containing normal bullet points, it's a much better use-case to be able to add some paragraph formatting. Otherwise you end up with what I want to avoid: multiple containers. Sometimes a WYSIWYG widget is helpful.

[dannSPM]

But that's where the idea of ​​a component comes in.

[krzysioper]

Even if you create a list with icons using SVG and text widget. Changing SVG doesn't work when you give it a parameter.
I hope they will drop like 5-10 atomic widgets all at once, otherwise mixing v4 and v3 is a bit pointless.

[phkoon]

That's a really poor workaround.
A list most of the time has a purpose and needs its proper HTML semantic tags.

[benyten9]

Yes, that's true as said by @raizscanlon . The v4 was developed to reduce container structure.

[alexanderpankart]

I completely agree that we urgently need native list support inside the Atomic Paragraph. Suggesting the use of nested containers or components to simulate a simple bulleted list is a technical anti-pattern.

Standard HTML <ul>, <ol>, and <li> elements are extremely lightweight by nature. Building basic list layouts with custom structural containers drastically increases DOM size, which V4 is actively trying to reduce, and completely destroys accessibility (a11y) as well as SEO. Screen readers and search engines rely on native list tags to announce and understand content structure properly.

Furthermore, while components are amazing for complex UI structures, forcing users to use them for basic typographical elements creates a terrible user experience for content editors. If someone is writing a blog post or long-form content, breaking out of the text block to add individual containers for every single bullet point is a massive workflow killer. Native rich-text features simply shouldn't be replaced by structural workarounds.

[benyten9]

@alexander-pankart I completely agree with you. So far, there is no response from elementor team about this. Hopefully they can see this.

[formulaclick]

100% agree. I guess this is still on Beta and they will release a list atomic widget or something similar. There's no other possibility.

[alexanderpankart]

It's a little nightmare for content creators, as they can't simply copy and paste finished texts from places like Google Docs. For the time being, you just have to use the old text widget, because it takes over an hour to copy a reasonably well-formatted article with bullet points.

[wordxpression]

Lets be realistic... If it will be the 'atomic paragraph' or not, if V4 wants to be taken seriously, we need an atomic element acting as a 'content viewer', a complete full featured 'HTML Render' component. The argument 'we are supposed to build everything in components' does not work here, since we also have to read information from databases... WordPress started as a blogplatform, remember?

[alexanderpankart]

This is an example of 3 bullet points. While it doesn't replace having a simple way to quickly create lists, it is the workaround that solves the problem for me right now.

While this is more of a replacement for the V3 Icon List widget, ultimately, both are lists. A classic <ul> would naturally be much faster and more efficient, especially when creating a lot of content, and also from an SEO perspective.