Parsing Markdown lists add paragraph to items

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Hi all,

When parsing a Markdown list,

julia> m = Markdown.parse("- qwe\n- rty")

each item gets its own paragraph.
The HTML conversion of the list includes the paragraphs (<p></p>) in each item too:

julia> println(Markdown.html(m))

<ul>
<li><p>qwe</p>
</li>
<li><p>rty</p>
</li>
</ul>

That is not the usual output one gets with other Markdown parsers, which would be something more like:

<ul>
  <li>qwe</li>
  <li>rty</li>
</ul>

The 2 HTML codes will render lists that look different from each other.

Does anyone know how to avoid this?

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This seems related: Markdown parsing of newlines in bulleted list · Issue #30198 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub

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While this is probably not what you want to read, you can use CSS to make the difference invisible in the two, something like

ul li p {margin: 0}

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A

<style>
ul li p {margin:0}
</style>

<ul>
<li><p>qwe</p>
</li>
<li><p>rty</p>
</li>
</ul>

B

<ul>
  <li>qwe</li>
  <li>rty</li>
</ul>

of course this may not be very satisfactory but I don’t think fixing the markdown parser is high on the priority list :stuck_out_tongue:

(I tend to use this a fair bit but inside a div so that it doesn’t leak elsewhere)

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Thanks @tlienart, it indeed helps in something I need just HTML.
On the other hand, it doens’t works in another use case where I copy the HTML to a DOCX doc, but that is also problem of how the WPS Office intreprets the HTML (It works ok with MS Office).
Thanks!

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copying HTML to a docx :thinking: , does that even work? anyway good luck!

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