shortcode posted always at top of page/post

Hi,
I experienced the following issue: posting a new article with PP short code, the output was always put on top of the pages. I solved the issue editing the shortcode code as following:

NOTE: bolded text is the added code

function showlist( $atts ){
    	extract( shortcode_atts( array(
    		'catid' => '',
    		'lenght' => '10',
    		'listclass' => 'aptools-list',
    		'header' => '2',
    		'headerclass' => 'aptools-list-header',
    		'excerpt' => 'false',
    		'image' => 'false',
    		'wrapper' => 'false',
    		'wrapperclass' => 'aptools-list-wrapper'
    	), $atts ) );

        $hopen = '<h'.$header.' class='.$headerclass.'>';
        $hclose = '</h'.$header.'>';

        if( $catid !== '' ):
            $args = array( 'category__in' => array($catid), 'posts_per_page' => $lenght );
        endif;

        $page = new WP_Query( $args );
	<strong>ob_start();</strong>
        if( $page->have_posts() ):
            if( $wrapper !== 'false'){
                echo '<div class="'.$wrapperclass.'">';
            }
            echo '<ul class="'.$listclass.'">';
            while( $page->have_posts() ):
                $page->the_post();
                echo '<li>';
                echo '<a href="'.get_permalink().'">'.get_the_title().'</a>';
                if( $image !== 'false' && has_post_thumbnail() ){ the_post_thumbnail( $image ); }
                if( $excerpt === 'true' ) echo ' <span>'.get_the_excerpt().'</span>';
                echo '</li>';
            endwhile;
            echo '</ul>';
            if( $wrapper !== 'false'){
                echo '</div>';
            }
        endif;
	<strong>$content = ob_get_clean();</strong>
        wp_reset_postdata();
	<strong>return $content;</strong>
    }

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