# API not accepting MarkDown Tables
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-not-accepting-markdown-tables/111726
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [March 15, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-not-accepting-markdown-tables/111726 "2019-03-15T18:21:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@dpaulus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dpaulus)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-not-accepting-markdown-tables/111726/1 "2019-03-15T18:21:09Z")
We use the hosted solution.
**Description of Problem:** Use the API to make posts. This has worked perfectly for the last 4 months (the last being Monday 3/11/19) until today. I created a couple very simple test to narrow down the problem:
_Data being sent thru API:_
|Col1|Col2|
|—|—|
|Col1data|Col2data|
_Image of the result:_
Notice the highlighted first header/data separator. Somehow it was changed from 3 dashes to a full line. The second separator was not changed. I believe this is the problem. Because the first column separator is not 3 dashes anymore, it doesn’t interpret it as a markdown table anymore. I just don’t know what causes the 3 dashes to change to this line char(s).
I can (sort of) replicate this ‘changing of dashes to a line’ when posting manually as well. If I enter this (note the second column separator is 3 dashes)…well, it is until it posts…
|Col1|Col2|
|\_\_\_|—|
|Col1data|Col2data|
The post will actually show the second separator now as a full line. Since, I’m a new user to this site, it’s saying I can’t post more than two images (huh?), so I can’t show the exact image, but here is a test url: [https://try.discourse.org/t/test-table-cause-seeing-problem/1335](https://try.discourse.org/t/test-table-cause-seeing-problem/1335)
I believe whatever is causing that change of the dashes to the line character, is also what is affecting the 3 dashes to change in the API as well. But, this is all a guess.
Can someone please help shed any light on this? 1) Why is this happening? 2) Did something change recently that could have caused this?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-not-accepting-markdown-tables/111726/2 "2019-03-15T18:23:28Z")
Try disabling the setting `enable markdown typographer`
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### Author:  [@dpaulus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dpaulus)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-not-accepting-markdown-tables/111726/3 "2019-03-15T18:38:23Z")
Thanks for the quick reply Rafael. That definitely got back the 3 dashes, but it still displays as plain text, instead of converting it to a table, like I would expect. So, quite possibly, what I thought was the issue was not :-(. Any other suggestions as to why this may not be displaying correctly as a table after posting thru the API?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-not-accepting-markdown-tables/111726/4 "2019-03-15T18:40:16Z")
Can you share the exact content of the post sent to the API here?
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### Author:  [@dpaulus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dpaulus)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-not-accepting-markdown-tables/111726/5 "2019-03-15T19:02:44Z")
Not really - it’s a a PS script…the first line tho shows the data being passed in, and the result shown above…
```
$HTMLTableAll = '|Col1|Col2|
|---|---|
|Col1data|Col2data|'
#Create Discourse JSON Body for posting new Topic
$DiscourseBodyJSON = @{}
$DiscourseBodyJSON.Add("title","Test - please ignore")
$DiscourseBodyJSON.Add("raw",$HTMLTableAll)
$DiscourseBodyJSON.Add("category",$TFOCategoryID)
$DiscourseDevNoteJSON = $DiscourseBodyJSON | ConvertTo-Json
$URI = $TWDomain + "posts.json" + $DiscourseCredsURI
Show-Log -LogType Txt -LogText $URI
Show-Log -LogType Txt -LogText $HTMLTableAll
$PostNote = @{Method = 'POST'
Uri = $URI
ContentType = "application/json"
Headers = @{Authorization = "Basic " + [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($DiscourseUserEnc)}
Body = $DiscourseDevNoteJSON
}
```
Result:
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### Author:  [@dpaulus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dpaulus)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-not-accepting-markdown-tables/111726/6 "2019-03-15T19:22:33Z")
Actually, I have this working again. I think that settings change actually did fix this issue. Thanks for the help!
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-not-accepting-markdown-tables/111726/7 "2019-03-15T19:23:44Z")
Only thing that jumps to me is that we use `\n` for line breaks in the API instead of `
`.
Anyway, since it’s working already, keep going.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2022, 9:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-not-accepting-markdown-tables/111726/9 "2022-05-04T09:32:10Z")