Backticks Don't Work in Numbered Lists

Question

I happened to be doing this here and I was going mad reading the backtick post here on meta.

This works fine

backtick this `this`

1. but this does not

   backtick this this

nor for bulleted lists

• nor this

  backtick this this

I'm not sure if this is a bug and surely it's been mentioned somewhere. Is there any way around it?

Answer 1

Ah-hah. You need to increase the indent of the code block for each level of the list it's "under". Indent 4 more spaces for each additional level:

example code

1. example 1

   example 1 code
   

2. example 2

   • example 2a

     example 2a code
     

ta-daaahh. for reference, here's what's typed to show the above:

    example code

1. example 1

        example 1 code

2. example 2

  - example 2a

            example 2a code

Answer 2

There are two ways to do this. The one you want to use is to indent the code block 4 more spaces

1. indent the code example

   backtick this `this`
   

Also works for bulleted lists

• like this

  backtick this `this`
  

The other way to do it is to escape the ` character. This is the option you want to use if you're not trying to format the line as code.

Escape the backtick like this \`

1. Using escaping like `this`

   or on the next line like `this`

Also works for bulleted lists

• like `this`

  or on the next line like `this`

Answer 3

This works:

1. List item1

   Some code
   

2. List item2

   Some more code
   

Double indent.