A link is broken within a list.

Question

In a recent answer, I made a list with the <ul> and <li> tags, as always. When I placed a link in one of the answers, it was broken, it looked like that:[description text][1].

What did I do wrong? How to correct it?

Answer 1

Don't mix HTML with Markdown. The proper way to make an unordered list in Markdown is to use either '*', '-', or '+' like so:

• foo
• bar
• baz
  • biff
    • bam
    • boop

Ordered lists are done similarly by using the digit 1.

1. Foo
2. Bar
   1. Biff
   2. Bam
3. Boop

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