# Issue with adding attachments inside table cells

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-adding-attachments-inside-table-cells/135607>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [December 10, 2019, 10:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-adding-attachments-inside-table-cells/135607 "2019-12-10T22:49:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 1:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-adding-attachments-inside-table-cells/135607/13 "2022-04-26T01:51:26Z")

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> [@wesochuck](#):
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> Any chance we could get the upload tool to automatically add in the escape character when it is uploading a file that is going to be used in a table?

Very tricky to do this accurately, our markdown engine only does reverse mapping per line, so we would need a bunch of special logic.

If the PR for this is small enough though I would be open to an improvement here.

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