[Theme: Twenty Eleven] Search excerpt breaks lists

Addend: reverted to Twenty Eleven; Twenty Twelve doesn’t indent on <UL>.

it is not recommended to edit the default theme Twenty Eleven directly – please create a child theme https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

the search outputs post excerpts which are stripping any html code:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

the code for it is in content.php:

<?php if ( is_search() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search ?>
		<div class="entry-summary">
			<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
		</div><!-- .entry-summary -->
		<?php else : ?>

if an <ul> is indented or not, depends on the stylesheet of the theme, i.e. is a decision of the theme designer;

change it in style.css if you want.

Quite right; is just what I meant by “locally”.
And yes, theme specific. Was surprised to see such a change in basics.

Thanks for the pointer … spot on.

p.s. do you happen to know a theme that would preserve list format in excerpt? (I really do think that should be default behavior. I see “Also in the latter case, HTML tags and graphics are stripped from the excerpt’s content.” so this is evidently a design decision.)

Addendum: this article in support hits a lot of major points: “How to modify the_excerpt“. see also Advanced Excerpt plugin.

the moment any theme uses the_excerpt() to generate the shortened version of a post, the html tags will be stripped.

you can write a custom handwritten excerpt with formatting which would get used by the_excerpt() – below the post editor; if this field does not show, click the ‘screen options’ tab near the top right and tick ‘excerpt’.

afaik, there is no perfect working solution to preserve the formatting in excerpts;
a plugin might offer some ways to preserve some of the formatting; for example https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/

I’m sure folk had a reason to go with that as default. It’s always bugged me, but hasn’t really had a harsh impact til now, with this “every post is a list” situation.
cheers

p.s. “Advanced Excerpt” did what I wanted straight out of the box; no downside seen yet. ??
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