# Merging Cells in Markdown Tables

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 8, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-cells-in-markdown-tables/175524 "2021-01-08T16:34:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-cells-in-markdown-tables/175524/1 "2021-01-08T16:34:26Z")

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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](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/6/e61f6492bd2b69cbd398fd49f3d6badcfd3ae99b.png)

Any advice is appreciated!

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