RFC: Remove Paragraph Tags between Tags

Mariusz Wojcik mdickie007 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 24 02:49:12 EST 2013



> 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


Thanks, but is it be possible to use markdown links inside a `<li>` tag? It
would be great if it works.
Thanks in advance,
Mariusz Wojcik


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