Code blocks nested inside of lists do not work

[Ben Nugent]

I'm unable to nest a multi-line code block inside of a list. The code all appears on one line. Example:

1. Item One

   Code line 1 Code line 2

2. Item Two

[Pablo Moreno]

I have the same issue than @Benjamin Nugent, even the bitbucket example is not well displayed:

https://bitbucket.org/tutorials/markdowndemo

I've tested my markdown in some other online editors and it works properly.

[Craine Runton]

I struggled with this as well earlier this month. What I found was that you have to use indented code blocks, not blocks delineated by ticks marks. So in order to get a multi-line code block nested within a list, such as:

---

GET

Retrieve the user's account info

• Request

  • Headers

    Accept: application/json  
    X-LTC-User-ID: {stored user ID}  
    X-LTC-API-Key: {stored user API key}
    

• Response 200 (application/json)

  • Headers

    Content-Type: application/json
    

  • Body

---

You'll have to put 8 spaces in front of the code block, in addition to the indentation for whatever list level you want it to work on, like so (spaces represented by periods here):

#### GET  
Retrieve the user's account info

+ Request

....+ Headers    
\n
............Accept: application/json  
............X-LTC-User-ID: {stored user ID}  
............X-LTC-API-Key: {stored user API key}
\n
+ Response 200 (application/json)

....+ Headers  
\n
............Content-Type: application/json  
\n
....+ Body

I also found that you have to have the newlines before & after the indented code block, otherwise it will end up as a regular paragraph under that list level. The biggest problem that I've found with this implementation is that you cannot use the spiffy syntax highlighting with indented code blocks, but otherwise they do work.

[Mateusz Łoskot]

There is now old BitBucket bug report, please vote there

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/6778/fenced-code-blocks-inside-list-bb-7955

[Raymond Gauthier]

Need fenced code block to work as part of list item.

[George Hategan]

In latest as of today cloud version of bitbucket (6.2) the problem still exists however I can use triple backticks as long as I leave an empty line before and after the code block.

[Sergey Zolotarev]

Same problem, Bitbucket’s markdown is basically broken

[Harshit Mahapatra]

I too am having this problem.

[Shanshan He]

Having the same issues. My readme page is not looking very pleasant.

[Michael Nielsen]

Bitbucket your markdown rendering is broken. Would you kindly fix it?

I cannot get code blocks that are part of a list element to indent and format properly, although it looks fine in Intellij and renders correctly at [https://dillinger.io/](https://dillinger.io/)

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e.g I need the code block indented under “b”:

• a

  • b

{"a": "b"}

This works properly in Intellij and dillinger.io. Why can’t it work properly on bitbucket?

[Hajime Sugiuchi]

@Mateusz Łoskot
Thanks for your post. I was wondering why this was not working.
I have voted.

[Lars Huttar]

Thanks for posting this. I went to https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/6778/fenced-code-blocks-inside-list-bb-7955 and voted for the bug to be fixed.

[Shahnewaz Khan]

Upvote +1