Problem with comments_number()

Question

The following code:

echo '<ul>';
while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
    $query->the_post();

    $title = get_the_title();
    echo '<li>' . $title . comments_number() . '</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';

moves the comments ABOVE and outside of the <li> like this:

1 Comment 

Hello world!

Answer 1

You want to use get_comments_number() as that doesn't echo the results, while comments_number does echo