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Incorrectly numbered list item

Ordered list items are expected to have straight numeration starting from 1.

The motivation behind this is that most of Markdown processors are ignoring the numbering of ordered lists. A processor will generate an <ol> element for such list, that will number items continuously from 1.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

MarkdownIncorrectlyNumberedListItem
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Markdown

Inspection ID: MarkdownIncorrectlyNumberedListItem

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection MarkdownIncorrectlyNumberedListItem

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025