Sample issue w/new GH ticket design: checkboxes not registering correctly when a task is present inside an HTML comment

[erinrwhite]

description of issue reported to GitHub

When an issue contains an HTML comment that has a markdown task list item/checkbox inside, subsequent checkboxes in the issue description register selections incorrectly.

how to replicate

Inside the sample code below, select the checkbox for "Task 2". The checkbox for "Task 1" will be selected instead.

This appears to happen when there is a comment block in the code with a markdown checkbox inside it.

Here's the comment that appears to be causing the issue:

<!-- ### Verify your information 
- [ ] Test hidden task
-->

begin example code

There's an HTML comment below this paragraph that contains a markdown checkbox. After that, the checkboxes stop working properly.

• Task 1
• Task 2
• Task 3
• Task 4
• Task 5
• Task 6
• Task 7
• Task 8

[erinrwhite]

Video of issue:

Screen.Recording.2024-10-09.at.11.21.16.AM.mov

[erinrwhite]

GitHub has escalated to their engineers. Closing.