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markdown rendering issues

Status
Pending
Subject
markdown rendering issues
Version
19.x
Category
  • Bug
Feature
Wiki Syntax (text area, parser, external wiki, etc)
Resolution status
New
Submitted by
Magnus Weis
Volunteered to solve
ibrahim mussa
Lastmod by
ibrahim mussa
Rating
(0)
Description

Rendering of mixed un-numbered and numbered lists has issues in tiki wiki pages, e.g.,

```markdown

  • unnumbered level 1

* unnumbered level 2
1. numbered level 3
* unnumbered level 4
2. numbered level 3
```

should be rendered like

```markdown

  • unnumbered level 1

* unnumbered level 2
1. numbered level 3
* unnumbered level 4
2. numbered level 3
```

but tiki actually renders it to

```markdown

  • unnumbered level 1

* unnumbered level 2
1. numbered level 3
2. unnumbered level 4
3. numbered level 3
```

Apart from "unnumbered level 4" item getting numbered (I get unintended numberings of list items quite a lot in tiki),
the actual spaces before each bullet point/number seems to not follow any common convention but appears to be basically random.

To best of my knowledge, two blanks before the first numbered item below an unnumbered item should be used
to make it align properly under the text of the unnumbered item above.
But tiki renders the above with an unintended huge indention for the "unnumbered level 4" item.

commonmark renders this just fine, see

https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/?text=*%20unnumbered%20level%201%0A%09*%20unnumbered%20level%202%0A%20%20%20%20%20%201.%20numbered%20level%203%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20*%20unnumbered%20level%204%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%202.%20numbered%20level%203%20%0A%60Question

There seems to be no way to properly include code blocks here. I will try show2.tiki.org...
...does not work either "Lost Tiki database connection".

Please check the source of this post to better understand the issue.
Thanks.

Solution
Workaround
Importance
5
Easy to solve?
5
Priority
25
Demonstrate Bug on Tiki 19+
Demonstrate Bug (older Tiki versions)
Ticket ID
8861
Reviewed by Wishlist Team On
28 Jan 26 09:27 UTC
Created
Thursday 06 November, 2025 08:52:15 UTC
by Magnus Weis
LastModif
Sunday 10 May, 2026 16:32:50 UTC


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