GitHub markdown, alerts are not working when they have been indented

[kasir-barati]

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Hi dear community,

I am fond of how beautiful are alerts in GitHub markdowns and I am using them whenever needed but I realized today that if I indent them GitHub cannot render them. Just look at this repo: https://github.com/kasir-barati/you-say

In this section I am indenting the "caution" to show that it is part of that list but to no avail, it is not working the way it does when I am not indenting it

Here I attach two screen shots:
Working case -- without indentation:

Broken case -- with indentation:

Are we restricted/limited to use them just without indentation? if yes where can I open an issue for them so we can discuss it further to see if it is viable and logically speaking practical to be added.

Many thanks

[jin-qin]

I am having the same issue, it should be a bug as I don't have this issue when I am previewing the same file in VS Code.

It's been three months since this question was created, could someone from Github help here?

[jcote-tc]

I'm having the same issue. i.e.

This works when the Alert is at the beginning of line:

1. Title of first section

   This is the first section.

Note

This is a note that creates the Alert icon correctly.

This doesn't work, when I try to align with another paragraph by adding three spaces in front of the line:

1. Title of first section

   This is the first section.

   [!NOTE]
   This is a note that creates a quoted text. It doesn't create the Alert icon.

[JaimeStill]

The documentation for alerts does state:

Alerts cannot be nested within other elements.

I agree with @kasir-barati that this restriction should be considered further because it severely limits the utility of alerts.

[jjmaestro]

+1 to having Alerts work in nested elements. At the very least, I'd love if they would work inside collapsed sections because that really helps to have easy-to-read README files and losing the ability to highlight stuff with alerts is a big loss / tradeoff VS having to do without collapsed sections.

[frozenfrank]

@jjmaestro Great comment!

I discovered this issue independently and have created a discussion specifically about alerts within collapsed sections. See #143379.