GitHub Flavored Markdown incompatibility (tasklists)

[jonahweissman]

In the markdown example notebook, it says that the "notebook webapp supports Github flavored markdown". However, the GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec includes the tasklist extension, i.e. - [ ] should be rendered as a checkbox. But when I try this in Jupyter Notebook, it displays a bullet point followed by [ ]. The markdown example notebook could be updated to reflect that the Jupyter Notebook is not fully compliant with the GFM spec, or support for task item lists could be added.

[takluyver]

See #1578 and #3686.

[ryan-williams]

Checkboxes seem to be rendered improperly in Jupyter:

as opposed to here on GitHub:

• a
• b
• c

source:

- [ ] a
- [x] b
- [ ] c

(Notice the redundant bullets preceding the checkboxes in the Jupyter version).

I think that's what this issue was originally highlighting:

But when I try this in Jupyter Notebook, it displays a bullet point followed by [ ]

I think this was closed due to misunderstanding the ask as "support for checkboxes altogether"?

Can we re-open?