Multi-line bullet list item in Markdown

Question

Does Markdown support bullet list items on multiple lines (with newlines inside the item's source)? In HTML, I can put <br> inside it.

• Item 1 first line
  Item 1 second line
• Item 2 first line
  Item 2 second line

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UPDATED in Jan 2020

Thank you for your contribution. Two trailing spaces work in the Jupyter environment.

Influent

Answer 1

Two spaces at the end of line are used to insert a line-break.

Example (replace the two dots with two spaces!):

* Item.. 
some indented text

This will render as:

• Item
  some indented text

Rodrickrodrigez

For those with auto whitespace trimming turned on (which I believe is very useful), consider using the trailing backslash solution mentioned in other answers. – Uppsala

Answer 2

Alternative to double trailing space you can add a trailing backslash.

* Item 1\
blah blah blah
* Item 2\
blah blah blah

rendered to

* Item 1
  blah blah blah
* Item 2
  blah blah blah

Pinchbeck

In the Jupyter notebook markdown environment, backslash does not work. – Influent

I prefer this because trailing spaces could be deleted by some editor configuration or simply not recognized by an author. – Knotgrass

python-markdown does not understand last backslash – Suspend

Answer 3

A more markdown-friendly alternative (to accepted answer) is to add 2 trailing spaces to the first line.

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Nice... didn't know this – Urticaceous

Answer 4

Oh I just checked <br> also works in markdown too...

Influent

Answer 5

You may check out this.

    * unordered list
    + sub-item 1 
    + sub-item 2 
        - sub-sub-item 1
        
* unordered list
    + sub-item 1 
    + sub-item 2 
        - sub-sub-item 1   

Cyan

Answer 6

Summary of all answers.

Add trailing:

• Backslash \
• HTML Line break <br>
• Two dots .. (did not work for me)
• Two spaces (some IDEs remove this)

I like the \ best. It is also used in the Linux shell.

Adaurd