RFC: Remove <p> Paragraph Tags between <li> Tags

[Waylan Limberg]

On Saturday, November 23, 2013, Mariusz Wojcik wrote:


>     <li>[Home](/)</li>

>     <li>[About Me](/about-me.html)</li>

>     <li>[Projects](/projects.html)</li>

>

> creates

>

>     <p><li><a href="/">Home</a></li>

>     <li><a href="/about-me.html">About Me</a></li>

>     <li><a href="/projects.html">Projects</a></li></p>

>

> Is this a bug or a feature? I think it shouldn't be that way because the

> <p>

> Tags around `li`s are illegal.

>


As the docs [1] state: “Markdown is smart enough not to add extra
(unwanted) `<p>` tags around HTML block-level tags.” The key there is
“block-level tags” which `<li>`s are not ( go ahead and check the HTML spec
on that). If you want to create raw HTML lists, then you need to wrap them
in the appropriate block-level tag yourself.

This is a case of garbage in - garbage out. When you're using raw HTML, you
need to use valid HTML. Markdown will not fix your invalid HTML for you.
So, in your case, a `<li>` not in a `<ol>` or `<ul>` in not valid HTML.
Therefore markdown doesn't fix it to make it valid. Markdown's
understanding of HTML is way to limited for that.

Hope that explains things for you.

[1]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html


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Waylan Limberg
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