Why Adding a Markdown Sublist Breaks the List on dev.to?

Can someone explain me why when I add a sublist to a Markdown list on dev.to, it breaks my list by adding unexpected CR after each item?

Here's my code:

- item 1
  - item 1.1
- item 2
- item 3

And the result:

• item 1
  • item 1.1
• item 2
• item 3

Thanks!

Comments

[Justin J Stark]

If you look at the outputted HTML, there are <br>s before item 2 and item 3. This is definitely a bug.

<ul>
<li>item 1
<ul>
<li>item 1.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<br>
<li>item 2</li>
<br>
<li>item 3</li>
</ul>

My guess is this line is meant to strip out the brs but I don't have time to figure out why it doesn't work.

[Defiance Black]

Hm.

If the pot is open for opinions, I'd rather that <CR> be removed.

I like tight lists.

[Darryl Norris]

This looks to me like a bug. I think it might be worth opening an issue in Github?

[Ben Halpern]

If anyone wants to dive in, the answer may lie here

github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/...

[Kasey Speakman]

I've run into this as well. I tend to just avoid sub lists in posts here. Although looking at it, it does look alright visually... just not what I expected.