How to do code formatting within numbering or bullets?

Question

When doing editing, in certain places I find difficulties to format codes those are within Numbering and Bullets.

Example is this. What I did was cut and paste the line which needs code formatting to the last and the coded section was added somewhat separately. That cannot apply for the instances where sequence is important.

One solution is to add it within ``. It is not suitable when few lines are available.( also < code >)

Is there any way to do this ?

Answer 1

I found the solution in this Meta Stack Overflow question:

• How to nest code within a list using Markdown

For example, if it is a numbered (or bulleted) section which should be like this:

1. [LINE 1]

2. [LINE 2]

   Normal [LINE 2] text

   CODE LINE 1
   CODE LINE 2
   CODE LINE 3
   

3. [LINE 3]

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Using Proper Markdown (Preferred Method)

It can be done by indenting the code an extra 4 spaces. Indenting it just 4 spaces will only make it part of the list as normal text. The example for above would be:

1. [LINE 1]
2. [LINE 2]

    Normal [LINE 2] text

        CODE LINE 1
        CODE LINE 2
        CODE LINE 3

3. [LINE 3]

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Using HTML <tags> (Alternative Method)

Alternatively, it can also be done using HTML tags like so:

1. [LINE 1]
2. [LINE 2] 

    Normal [LINE 2] text

    <pre><code>CODE LINE 1
CODE LINE 2
CODE LINE 3
</code></pre> 
3. [LINE 3] 

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Using HTML <tags> should be avoided as much as possible since it becomes difficult to read and comprehend the text when reading from source. Markdown was born to get rid of this weakness by removing all the clutter.