# end finally, do this
If you want to add special formatted content, like <nowiki><syntaxhighlight></nowiki> tags within the numbered items, use one of the following workaround workarounds to preserve continuous numbering:
<pre>
# Item 1
</pre>
or <pre># Item 1# Item 2<br /><syntaxhighlight lang="xml"><Node1>Value1</Node1></syntaxhighlight># Item 3</pre> Using a HTML comment <!-- --> '''OR''' <br/> for the linebreak line break prevents that the numbered list is broken and numbering starts over:
# Item 1
# Item 2 <!--
--><syntaxhighlight lang="xml">
<Node1>Value1</Node1>
</syntaxhighlight>
# Item 3
or
# Item 1
# Item 2<br /><syntaxhighlight lang="xml">
<Node1>Value1</Node1>
</syntaxhighlight>