# Nested Lists in Timeline Event Body

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/nested-lists-in-timeline-event-body/65351>\
**Category:** CRM\
**Tags:** templates\
**Created:** [September 19, 2022, 11:31am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/nested-lists-in-timeline-event-body/65351 "2022-09-19T11:31:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![MThoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MThoma](https://community.hubspot.com/u/MThoma)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 11:31am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/nested-lists-in-timeline-event-body/65351/1 "2022-09-19T11:31:25Z")

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Hi all,

I am trying to render nested lists in the body of timeline events. Does anybody succeeded in doing so? I am quite out of options now. My ideas included using:

markdown syntax (“- Words in a list item”). This did not render a list but just trimmed the three whitespaces to a single one.

HTML (“\<ul\>\<li\>Words in a list item\</li\>\</ul\>”). This just displayed the plain html text including the tags.

Indent items manually (“- Item Level 0 \n - Item Level 1”). This just removed the indent and trimmed all whitespaces).

I’d appreciate any kind of help 🙂

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![TitiCuisset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TitiCuisset](https://community.hubspot.com/u/TitiCuisset)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 7:52am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/nested-lists-in-timeline-event-body/65351/2 "2022-09-20T07:52:03Z")

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Hi @MThoma

Thank you for reaching out.

I want to tag some of our experts here - @Anton @LMeert do you have any thoughts for @MThoma on this?

Thank you!

Best

Tiphaine

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**Author:** ![LMeert](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/lmeert/32/103847_2.png) [@LMeert](https://community.hubspot.com/u/LMeert)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 8:12am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/nested-lists-in-timeline-event-body/65351/3 "2022-09-20T08:12:14Z")

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Hi @MThoma,

Have you had a look at [that documentation yet](https://legacydocs.hubspot.com/docs/methods/timeline/timeline-template-rendering) ?

HMTL is not supported so you will have to use markdown and markdown only to format your bullet point list.

Have you tried using another character for lists, like ‘\*’ ?

Best,

Ludwig