I am trying to make some fancyish tables in a Discourse post and cant seem to get it to work. In a nut shell I want to merge some cells to place multiple cells underneath or similar. Is this possible? This is my syntax | | Grouping || First Header | Second Header | Third Header | ------------ | :-----------: | -----------: | Content | Long Cell || Content | Cell | Cell | This is what I get | | Grouping || First Header Second Header Third Header Content Long Cell Content Cell Cell This is what I am trying to do [image] Any advice is appreciated!

It’s currently not possible, and Discourse doesn’t support colspan or rowspan attributes for and elements. I don’t think it’s the roadmap either. It is possible that you can add the support for this with a custom plugin. See: Whitelisting HTML tags / attributes the list of supported HTML elements is here: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/assets/javascripts/pretty-text/addon/allow-lister.js#L115. The table tags seem to be here: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/assets/javascripts/pretty-text/engines/discourse-markdown/table.js Maybe this will be of some help. If you want to request allowing colspan or rowspan attributes in core, you may want to create a new #feature topic. :slight_smile:

That seems like a copy paste of multimarkdown example. Can I merge table rows in markdown github, markdown, github-flavored-markdown asked by dev-masih on 03:14PM - 07 Oct 17 UTC And I think Discourse is using markdown.it. Therefore not possible to do in Discourse.

I am looking for a solution to the need of merging table cells on the forum, in order to optimize the display interface. as well as allowing adding images to the table. then found the introduction to jekyll-spaceship Link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46621765/can-i-merge-table-rows-in-markdown So has anyone integrated it into the core of discourse Not yet?

Thank you, I will refer to the article sample in the category feature for a clear recommendation

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moggleif (Morgan Johansson) January 8, 2021, 4:57pm 2

That seems like a copy paste of multimarkdown example.

And I think Discourse is using markdown.it. Therefore not possible to do in Discourse.

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