# Markdown isn't processed inside tables

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-isnt-processed-inside-tables/33706
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** markdown-it-review
**Created:** [September 24, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-isnt-processed-inside-tables/33706 "2015-09-24T13:34:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![Tom\_Newsom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tom_newsom/32/115981_2.png) [@Tom\_Newsom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Newsom)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-isnt-processed-inside-tables/33706/1 "2015-09-24T13:34:59Z")

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I know HTML tables aren’t top priority, but this is rather annoying

Here’s a few common text formats, working as intended:

> [Link](https://meta.discourse.org/) **bold** `code`

Inside a table, the same markdown isn’t processed:

```html
<table>
<tr>
<td>[Link][1]</td><td> **bold** </td><td> `code`</td>
</tr>
</table>

```

result:

| [Link][1] | \*\*bold\*\* | `code` |

Meanwhile, markdown inside other legitimate HTML is processed normally

`<i>[Link][1]</i>`

result:

_[Link](https://meta.discourse.org/)_

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### Author: ![DavidGNavas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/davidgnavas/32/68313_2.png) [@DavidGNavas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DavidGNavas)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-isnt-processed-inside-tables/33706/2 "2015-09-24T14:06:07Z")

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Perhaps this will work with the future upgrade to markdown-it:

> [@Improve numbered lists](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-numbered-lists/11951/10):
>
> Will be fixed when we upgrade to [https://markdown-it.github.io/](https://markdown-it.github.io/) later this year. Feel free to try it out there.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/0/a090acc5bafbe77293d5e8b51c9590f23b5ea245.png)

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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: [June 26, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-isnt-processed-inside-tables/33706/3 "2017-06-26T19:55:02Z")

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| hmmm | hmmm |
| --- | --- |
| does it **work** | yes it does |

```plaintext
|hmmm|hmmm|
|----|----|
|does it **work** | yes it does|

```

We have terrible CSS formatting for tables, @Falco is going to commit a fix for it shortly, however this all works fine now.

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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: [June 26, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-isnt-processed-inside-tables/33706/4 "2017-06-26T19:55:10Z")

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