Inserting line break in lists messes up the syntax

[stevenxxiu]

The following is Markdown which produces a line break in the middle of the list. The syntax highlighting fails however, as the 3 isn't highlighted as italics.

- 1
    - 2  
    <br/>
    - *3*

[deathaxe]

According to CommonMark (see: https://spec.commonmark.org/0.30/#html-blocks) <br/> starts a type 7 html block, which requires an empty line to be terminated.

As the following example shows, Github doesn't render the *3* italic.

• 1
  • 2
    
    
  • 3

Gitlab's Markdown renderer behaves the same way:

Hence I'd call this working as expected.

[stevenxxiu]

Hmm ok I guess this and https://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown that https://facelessuser.github.io/MarkdownPreview/ uses, appear to display the items differently.

Not much I can do now except to just use --- and style that.