Attribute behavior for list elements differs from expectations

[sahksas]

I appreciate the hard work on this plugin! However, I encountered an issue that behaves differently than I expected when applying attributes to list elements in Markdown.

Markdown-it versions:

# run this command and copy the output
# npm ls | grep markdown-it
$ bun pm ls | grep markdown-it
├── @types/markdown-it@14.1.2
├── @types/markdown-it-attrs@4.1.3
├── markdown-it@14.1.0
├── markdown-it-attrs@4.2.0

Example input:

- item
  - child
- item
{.item}

Current output:

<ul>
  <li>item
    <ul class="item">
      <li>child</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>item</li>
</ul>

Expected output:

<ul class="item">
  <li>item
    <ul>
      <li>child</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>item</li>
</ul>

I was expecting the .item class to be applied to the outer ul element, but instead, it was applied to the inner one.

Could this behavior be part of the intended functionality of the plugin? Or might I be misunderstanding how to correctly apply attributes in this case? I would greatly appreciate any guidance on this matter.

Thank you very much for your time and for maintaining this fantastic plugin!

[sahksas]

Apologies for the confusion. After reading this section and issue #32, it seems that the behavior I encountered is indeed expected according to the specification.

In fact, when I rewrote the Markdown as shown below, the result changed as expected:

- item
  - child
- item

{.item}

<ul class="item">
  <li>item
    <ul>
      <li>child</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>item</li>
</ul>

For now, I will close this issue, but I would still appreciate any comments or further insights you might have!

[arve0]

Hi! It’s a lot of work reimplementing as a parser plugin, so this’ll be the behavior. Though I agree that it’s unexpected.