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TaskList of GitHub Flavored Markdown doesnt support ordered lists

I noticed that there is a way to add tasklist in GFM, as mentioned in their blogpost here, https://github.com/blog/1375-task-lists-in-gfm-issues-pulls-comments

However it doesnt show any examples for task list for a ordered list. Is it supported? If so, can somebody share an example.

Solution

  • No, it's not supported. You can write an ordered list of checkboxes like this:

    1. [ ] Foo
2. [ ] Bar

    It renders as an ordered list in HTML (<ol>), but their stylesheet removes the numbers.

    So while you can express the list as an ordered list, you would need your own stylesheet to render it as such.