blockquote syntax is ignored in the cells

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Hello.

According to multimarkdown documentation:

You can use normal Markdown markup within the table cells.

but when i try this:

|col1 |col2 |
|:---|:---|
|>hello|blockquote|

i get this output (> is converted to >):

col1	col2
>hello	blockquote

(github does the same as multimarkdown)

is there any other way to indent content in table cells, or any chance this issue will get fixed?

[fletcher]

Blockquotes are block level elements. They can't be used inside span level elements like a table cell.

F

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Are you absolutely sure about that? Even paragraphs and divs are valid inside table cells, why not blockquote? Google chrome displays them fine in table cells, and I believe it's perfectly valid at least with HTML5.

I cannot find any rules in the HTML5 spec which forbid embedding

inside of .

On the unofficial side of things, there's the table showing which elements can be nested, and td clearly is allowed to nest content-flow elements, which blockquote is one of.

[fletcher]

resolve

Blockquotes are block level elements. They can't be used inside span level elements like a table cell.

Fletcher

On 6/23/14, 12:26 PM, Alexey Yakovenko wrote:

Hello.

According to multimarkdown documentation:

|You can use normal Markdown markup within the table cells.|

but when i try this:

col1	col2
>hello	blockquote

i get this output (|>| is converted to |>|):

/Property:/ /Function:/

hello blockquote

(github does the same as multimarkdown)

is there any other way to indent content in table cells, or any chance this issue will get fixed?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown/issues/48.

Fletcher T. Penney fletcher@fletcherpenney.net

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

col1	col2
Thanks for replying and the nice attitude.	And have a nice day

[fletcher]

Markdown blocks, not HTML blocks.

F

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On Jun 23, 2014, at 3:21 PM, Alexey Yakovenko notifications@github.com wrote:

Are you absolutely sure about that? Even paragraphs and divs are valid inside table cells, why not blockquote? Google chrome displays them fine in table cells, and I believe it's perfectly valid at least with HTML5.

I cannot find any rules in the HTML5 spec which forbid embedding

inside of .

On the unofficial side of things, there's the table showing which elements can be nested, and td clearly is allowed to nest content-flow elements, which blockquote is one of.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[fletcher]

Looks like one of my comments that was delayed and presumed lost was subsequently accepted, hence the repetition...

Anyways, since things seem to be out of order above, to clarify. I understand that HTML allows almost anything inside a table cell, but Markdown (and therefore MultiMarkdown) does not.

F-

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Yeah, I understood that after your previous post. Thanks for clarification. Although it's strange that you can't change that, since original markdown has neither tables, nor formal standard.

[fletcher]

Markdown does specify a distinction between block level and span level elements. I'm sure if you think it through, you'll realize why allowing block level elements inside a table cell won't work within MultiMarkdown. If you want complicated tables, you'll need to hand code them.

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

I'll just tell the users to use

tag directly -- it works in multimarkdown tables. Just hoped it might be easy to get ">" syntax working.

[fletcher]

Not if they use multiline block quotes it won't....

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Single-line is good enough for our use case