Bullet rendering causes unwanted pre-formatted text rendering

[ariehen]

You can’t arbitrarily indent in Markdown (your last line); it will create a code block. This is an exact copy-paste of the contents of bug.md here in the forum (which also uses Markdown) →

• this is a bullet
  • this is a sub bullet

this is some text

• this works ok

• Now let’s try again…this is a bullet

  • this is a sub bullet

this is some text

- this breaks and for some reason is in preformatted

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Here’s another example using checkboxes:

Misdisplay when using - [ ] after indentation

That’s right. That’s how Markdown works. Indenting something without a parent indicates you want code or pre-formatted text. If you want to indent a bullet or checkbox, it needs a parent bullet or checkbox. It’s the same on this forum, which also uses Markdown: Testing Testing 2 Testing 3 Or just a parent bullet: Testing Testing 2 Testing 3 And without a parent: - [ ] Testing is code block What I typed to show that: - [ ] Testing - [ ] Testing 2 - [ ] Test…

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Markdown Resources

• Obsidian Basic Formatting | Learn many of the basics of Markdown in Obsidian.
• Markdown Guide | Learn more about how Markdown renders various elements by syntax.