Multi-line bullet list in markdown

Question

Does markdown supports multi-line (line-break inside the item) bullet list? In HTML, I can put <br> inside it.

Item 1
blah blah blah
Item 2
blah blah blah

UPDATED in Jan 2020

Thank you for your contribution. Two trailing spaces work in the Jupyter environment.

score 120 · Accepted Answer · answered May 26 '18 at 21:36

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Two spaces at the end of line are used to insert a line-break.

Example (replace the two dots with two spaces!):

* Item.. 
some indented text

This will render as:

Item
some indented text

answered May 26 '18 at 21:36

Andrej Debenjak

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For those with auto whitespace trimming turned on (which I believe is very useful), consider using the trailing backslash solution mentioned in other answers. – Marcos Pereira Feb 12 '23 at 13:29

score 60 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 20 '16 at 14:09

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A more markdown-friendly alternative (to accepted answer) is to add 2 trailing spaces to the first line.

answered Dec 20 '16 at 14:09

Alexander Tsepkov

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Nice... didn't know this – eric.frederich Feb 21 '18 at 14:36

score 55 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 22 '20 at 11:08

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Alternative to double trailing space you can add a trailing backslash.

* Item 1\
blah blah blah
* Item 2\
blah blah blah

rendered to

* Item 1
  blah blah blah
* Item 2
  blah blah blah

answered Jan 22 '20 at 11:08

Kotodid

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In the Jupyter notebook markdown environment, backslash does not work. – SUNDONG Jan 26 '20 at 06:53
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I prefer this because trailing spaces could be deleted by some editor configuration or simply not recognized by an author. – Michael May 11 '21 at 14:40
python-markdown does not understand last backslash – socketpair Mar 16 '23 at 15:42

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 12 '15 at 14:24

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Oh I just checked <br> also works in markdown too...

answered Nov 12 '15 at 14:24

SUNDONG

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 07 '22 at 11:50

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You may check out this.

    * unordered list
    + sub-item 1 
    + sub-item 2 
        - sub-sub-item 1
        
* unordered list
    + sub-item 1 
    + sub-item 2 
        - sub-sub-item 1

answered Sep 07 '22 at 11:50

Seyma Kalay

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Multi-line bullet list in markdown

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