nested lists not working in markdown

[ousia]

Hi there,

nesting numbered and unnumbered lists doesn’t seem to work in markdonw.

Here you have a sample:

1. first item
   • item
2. second item
   • item
3. third item
   • item

The nested items are displayed as code, which is wrong in that case.

Many thanks for your help.

[mojavelinux]

It might be helpful if you put the example inside of fenced code blocks so that we can see the actually source, not how it's rendered on GitHub.

[mojavelinux]

I think your example looks like this:

1. one

    * nested

2. two

    * nested

3. three

    * nested

If that's the case, you need to remove the blank line between the parent and child item.

1. one
   * nested

2. two
   * nested

3. three
   * nested

As you can see in this preview:

1. one
   • nested
2. two
   • nested
3. three
   • nested

[ousia]

Thanks for the reply.

Everything is clear to me know.

Thanks again.

[ousia]

I found a situation in which the solution above doesn’t help.

markdown allows “loose” list items:

1. list item.
2. list item.
3. list item.
4. list item.

As different from “tight” list items:

1. list item.
2. list item.
3. list item.

But in nested lists it is impossible to have “loose” list items:

1. one
   • nested
   • nested
   • nested
2. two
   • nested
   • nested
   • nested
3. three
   • nested
   • nested
   • nested

How about allowing the blank line between parent and child to be understood as a “loose” list item?

I mean the following: in nested lists, if the child item has a blank line before, this item is “loose’; if it doesn’t have the blank line, the item is “thight”.

[bkeepers]

/cc @github/markdown thoughts?

[bkeepers]

Thanks for the report. This is not something that can be fixed by a commit to this repository, so I'm going to close the issue, but our markdown team knows about it.

[JobaDiniz]

What about nested ordered lists?

1. Something
   1.1. Something
   1.2. Something
2. Something

It doesn't work.

[mdiep]

To nest ordered lists, you have to indent the sub-items. Like this:

1. Something
  1. Something
  2. Something
2. Something

1. Something
   1. Something
   2. Something
2. Something

[JobaDiniz]

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