Hi Sean, 

This div syntax is identified in the Pandoc manual (see Extension: 
fenced_divs). It is a Pandoc specific extension AFAIK.

> It seems to me that often encoding something as HTML is just as quick 
> and pretty as encoding it slightly differently as Markdown. 

I would strongly disagree for anything but the most trivial examples.

On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 4:40:13 PM UTC+10 S. Manning wrote:

> Could you explain? Do you mean add a div as inline HTML around the list 
> written in Markdown syntax, or do some versions of Markdown have a 
> Markdown annotation that is equivalent to a HTML div? 
>
> It seems to me that often encoding something as HTML is just as quick 
> and pretty as encoding it slightly differently as Markdown. I am not 
> familiar with versions of Markdown with this 'identifier' syntax. 
>
> Sean 
>
> On 2021-04-12 01:01, BPJ wrote: 
> > You can always wrap the list in a div with attributes and then use a 
> > child selector in your CSS: 
> > 
> > ``````markdown 
> > 
> > ::: {#my-list} 
> > 
> > - This 
> > - That 
> > 
> > ::: 
> > `````` 
> > 
> > ``````css 
> > div#my-list ul { 
> > /* Put your style here */ 
> > } 
> > `````` 
> > 
> > Not the most concise or pretty HTML or CSS imaginable but it works! 
> > 
> > On occasion I have used Mojo::DOM[^1] to post-process such HTML to 
> > actually attach the attributes to the contained element and remove the 
> > div or span, but its mostly overkill unless you have to adapt to some 
> > existing common CSS, since hardly anyone will look at your HTML source 
> > or CSS anyway. 
> > 
> > [^1]: https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojo::DOM 
> > 
> > Den mån 12 apr. 2021 09:47Bücherregal Domi <gamez...-Re5JQEeQqe8@public.gmane.orgm> 
> > skrev: 
> > 
> >> Hello, is there a way to use HTML identifiers with lists? Something 
> >> like 
> >> 
> >> ``` markdown 
> >> {#id_string} 
> >> - item 
> >> - item 
> >> 
> >> ``` 
> >> 
> >> This would allow to identify different lists in the Markdown file, 
> >> and it would also allow different CSS styles to be applied to each 
> >> list. This type of identification already exists for headers, spans, 
> >> etc. 
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