Markdown Discuss - Nov 2013 - RFC: Remove <p> Paragraph Tags between <li> Tags

<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.
Greetings,
Mariusz Wojcik

On Nov 23, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Mariusz Wojcik <mdickie007 at gmail.com>
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.
Why are you doing half-Markdowny?

* [Home](/)
* [About Me](/about-me.html)
* [Projects](/projects.html)

generates

<ul>
<li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="/about-me.html">About Me</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects.html">Projects</a></li>
</ul>

...which is legal and expected.

I think being more idiomatic is to your benefit here.

Deirdre
http://deirdre.net/

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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