Code blocks in bullet items

Stream: Zulip meta

[Thomas Murrills]

What's the right way to format code blocks in bullet items? E.g.

• lorem ipsum
  dolor
  sic amet

written as

* lorem ipsum
  ```
  dolor
  ```
  sic amet

looks strange to me (on the mac zulip app). Does it also look strange to others?

[Kenny Lau]

• lorem ipsum

dolor

sit amet

[Kenny Lau]

yeah I don't think I've ever found a good way to do it in the middle of an item if I have to then resume the same indentation afterwards

[Bryan Gin-ge Chen]

Here's what it looks like to me (in Firefox on Mac):
Screenshot 2025-09-25 at 6.20.42 PM.png

(I don't know a good way of formatting code blocks in bullet items either)

[Joscha Mennicken]

Indentation-based code blocks seem to work in lists. (Check the source code of this message using the "View original message" option)

Lorem

• ipsum

  dolor
  sit

  amet,

• consectetur

• adipiscing...

[Thomas Murrills]

Huh, I didn't know you could create code blocks with whitespace alone!

[Joscha Mennicken]

Zulip's markup language is based on markdown, so it makes sense this markdown feature would work as well.

[Joscha Mennicken]

My exact google query was markdown code block in list :D