Hi thanks for the reply however it does not solve the problem. Although used the right syntax, I still cannot see checkboxes rendered correctly in my Databricks notebook, see the screenshot.

Also doesn't work for me, they just render as dot points.

Thanks for the answer - hope databricks can improve their support of markdown in the future

@teaholic could you explain a bit more about what the check marks are for and how you'd like to use them? I'd like to pass the feedback onto our product teams, but I know the first question I'll get from them is "can you tell me more about the use case?"

Hi @teaholic ,

If you really need this feature you can install ipywidgets library and use it as below:

from ipywidgets import Checkbox
mycheckbox_1 = Checkbox(description="Task 1 status")
mycheckbox_2 = Checkbox(description="Task 2 status")
display(mycheckbox_1)
display(mycheckbox_2)

Raised with the product team, I can't promise any timelines, but a few of the engineers think this might be a fun one for their next hackathon

Hi @teaholic
I faced the same problem and found the 

 

Thanks, that’s a simple and practical solution!