Code following bulleted list not formatting

Question

I encountered this bug a few minutes ago, and decided to bring it up here. It happens when both asking and answering a question.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create bulleted list with a couple/few items. I checked, the size of the list doesn't matter, whether it's one or seven items .

2. Post a piece of code, formatted with four spaces below the list

3. Observe code not being formatted

It was really frustrating as I was trying to answer a users question, and the code wasn't formatting. The solution was I had to type something after the list, but is that really required?

Answer 1

This is kind-of working as intended. What you observe, is the code being taken as a point in the bulleted list.

If you want this, add another 4 spaces of indentation and the code will be formatted correctly.

• Point

• Point 2

  import code
  code.do()
  

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If you don't want this, break the bulleted list by inserting something else in between. Even an invisible HTML comment does the trick there (<!-- -->).

• Point
• Point 2

Code:

import code
code.do()

Notice how the codeblock itself is indented in the first example while not in the latter?

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It's not a bug, it's a feature. So you can do this:

• Point

• Indented 4 spaces and given code fences

  import code
  code.do()
  

• Indented 8 spaces instead of 4

  import moar_code
  moar_code.do()
  

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VisualMelon suggested adding triple-backtick formatting to fix it. Personally, I'm not in favour of this as it's mixing formatting styles and makes copying the code to an IDE more work. But it does 'fix' your situation. Just like adding 4 more spaces does.