# Markdown nested list renders flat \[solved\]

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/markdown-nested-list-renders-flat-solved/6392>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [April 30, 2017, 6:53am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/markdown-nested-list-renders-flat-solved/6392 "2017-04-30T06:53:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![diimdeep](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/diimdeep/32/978_2.png) [@diimdeep](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/diimdeep)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 6:53am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/markdown-nested-list-renders-flat-solved/6392/1 "2017-04-30T06:53:06Z")

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Markdown nested list renders flat.  
What is might be problem ?

Tried chaning all kinds of settings…  
Using Cocoa theme, AFAIk theme can’t affect this…

```auto
[blackfriday]
  taskLists = true
  angledQuotes = true
  fractions = true
  plainIDAnchors = true
  tabSizeDefault = 4
  extensions = ["hardLineBreak", "tables", "noEmptyLineBeforeBlock", "definitionLists"]

```

![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/gohugo/original/2X/6/65f717b0998cb06250885768513283d4f6f0d182.png)

UPDATE:  
Cocoa theme issue.  
After using CSS reset default list appearance is lost. Have to specify manually:

```auto
section.main .content .markdown ul {
  margin-top: 0.25rem;
  margin-bottom: 0.25rem;
  padding-left: 1em;
}

section.main .content .markdown ol > li {
  list-style-type: decimal;
}

section.main .content .markdown li {
  list-style-type: disc;
  list-style-position: inside;
}

section.main .content .markdown ul > li > ul > li {
  list-style-type: circle;
}

section.main .content .markdown ul > li > ul > li > ul > li {
  list-style-type: square;
}

```

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**Author:** ![rdwatters](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/rdwatters/32/2848_2.png) [@rdwatters](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/rdwatters)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/markdown-nested-list-renders-flat-solved/6392/2 "2017-04-30T16:52:49Z")

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As an aside, seethe following issue with Blackfriday mentioned in the new docs concept:

[https://hugodocs.info/content-management/formats/#markdown](https://hugodocs.info/content-management/formats/#markdown)