Support markdown tags inside table cells...

[fredericsimard]

Hi. This is something that's been bugging me for years, and I understand the issue comes from MKDocs itself, but if things like unordered/ordered list work in a table cell, that would be a great improvement. Right now the solution is a mix of HTML tags, which is ok but not ideal for a copywriter who does not do coding.

Here's an example of what I mean:

| Title here   | Example                   |
| ------------ | ------------------------- |
| Ordered list | 1. This is the first item</br>2. This is the second item |
| Unordered list | - This is the first item</br>- This is the second item |

The numbers and the dashes are displayed once converted to HTML but not as a Mkdown tag but as a standard character, so for example the lines after the first will not indent like they do elsewhere.

I understand the </br> tag is here to stay, that one would affect the table's logic.

But anything we can do for Mkdown tags?

[jaywhj]

After checking, most markdown tags are supported inside table cells.

Using <br /> for line breaks is simpler. For additional features, It's need to add custom extensions. You may refer to this extension first https://github.com/joapuiib/pymdown-multimd-table

[fredericsimard]

Well ordered and non-ordered list don't work. Code blocks, headings, blockquotes, horizontal rules... none of them work. Not without replacing them with HTML equivalents, but that's not always a fix.

I only mentioned the
tag because it's in my example, not to ask to have something else.

If there's nothing that can be done, so be it.

[jaywhj]

This feature requires extending the upstream parser library, which involves extra work and is not cost-effective. I will consider implementing it when I have spare time in the future.

[fredericsimard]

No worries, was just hoping something could be done.

[joapuiib]

@fredericsimard Did you try https://github.com/joapuiib/pymdown-multimd-table?

| Title here   | Example                    |
| ------------ | -------------------------  |
| Ordered list | 1. This is the first item  |\
|              | 2. This is the second item |
| Unordered list | - This is the first item |\
|                | - This is the second item |

For reference: https://joapuiib.github.io/pymdown-multimd-table/syntax/multiline/#nested-list-inside-a-cell

[fredericsimard]

No, I haven't. But will do, looks like it's fixing other issues I didn't think of. This should be part of markdown by default tbh. Thanks!