Lists without bullets points in Markdown

Question

I want to create a list in Markdown, but without bullet points. Is that possible?

The only recommended ways I found so far are using HTML, which I want to avoid.

usually, markdown is used to export to HTML (or other formats)... what do you mean with "The only recommended ways I found so far are using HTML, which I want to avoid"? btw, see http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask — mb21, Sep 09 '15 at 12:42
Yeah, that's the point. Export to HTML, not write in HTML. Often you can mix Markdown and HTML, but my question is, if there is a way to write it in Markdown. — Yanick Nedderhoff, Sep 09 '15 at 14:03
I appreciate your idea, but I am looking for a solution for doing this with Markdown only. I know I could modify the HTML or CSS afterwards, but that's not what I'm looking for. If there is no way to do that, that would be an answer, too ;) — Yanick Nedderhoff, Sep 09 '15 at 15:18
So you want to change the way that the browser displays the HTML rendered by Markdown? That would require CSS. Or if you want different HTML to be output (which doesn't use `

score 25 · Answer 1 · answered May 13 '20 at 10:16

25

This might sound obvious but... you could understand a list as "lines separated by line breaks" (when you think about the output, not the markup).

First item  (<-- two spaces)  
Second item

This will render to:

First item
Second item

This looks like a list with no bullet points :)
A more beautiful example.

answered May 13 '20 at 10:16

schuhwerk

This works, but I have my editor configured to strip trailing whitespace on save and don't want to toggle that off and on all the time. – jdgregson Dec 07 '22 at 18:12
@jdgregson Many editors have a solution for your issue :) Disable trimming trailing whitspaces for markdown. [Quick fix for VSCode](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/1679) – schuhwerk Dec 13 '22 at 16:53

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '15 at 16:40

15

No, with pure markdown this is not possible.

Think of Markdown as a simpler syntax for HTML. To change the styling you'll need to add a CSS to the generated HTML.

answered Sep 09 '15 at 16:40

mb21

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 28 '19 at 06:50

5

Like @mb21 specified, here is the CSS if someone needs:

ul {
    list-style-type: none;
    margin-left: 40px;
}

answered Feb 28 '19 at 06:50

Rehmat

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 28 '20 at 21:48

1

I know this isn't really specific to Github, but, if that were the case, you could then leverage the native CSS styling there:

<div id="user-content-toc">
  <ul>
    ...
  </ul>
</div>

answered Dec 28 '20 at 21:48

Philippe Fanaro

How did you go about discovering this in particular? I'm hunting around, and on the profile page the repositories list on the left uses class `list-styles-none` but it doesn't work in my README. – Jacob Birkett Jan 07 '22 at 06:12
I don't remember exactly what triggered the realization, but I remember it involved a lot of trying different things and investigating how the behavior of the page changed with the browser inspector. – Philippe Fanaro Jan 07 '22 at 13:00

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered May 02 '22 at 09:55

1

You could simply put the items in new lines with every line ends with

Example:

item 1 <br/>
item 2 <br/>
item 3 <br/>
item 4 <br/>

answered May 02 '22 at 09:55

Nathan5x

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