I have the following cells in a markdown table:
|Something|Something else that's rather long|Something else|
I'd like to be able to insert a break in the middle line, so the column isn't so large. How can I do that in Markdown? Do I need to use HTML tables instead?
Use <br>
to force a line break within a table cell.
Markdown Extra and MultiMarkdown allow tables, but after trial and error, it seems an HTML line break is needed in this case.
When you're exporting to HTML, using <br>
works. However, if you're using pandoc to export to LaTeX/PDF as well, you should use grid tables:
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
| Fruit | Price | Advantages |
+===============+===============+====================+
| Bananas | first line\ | first line\ |
| | next line | next line |
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
| Bananas | first line\ | first line\ |
| | next line | next line |
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
Use <br/>
. For example:
Change log, upgrade version
Dependency | Old version | New version |
---------- | ----------- | -----------
Spring Boot | `1.3.5.RELEASE` | `1.4.3.RELEASE`
Gradle | `2.13` | `3.2.1`
Gradle plugin <br/>`com.gorylenko.gradle-git-properties` | `1.4.16` | `1.4.17`
`org.webjars:requirejs` | `2.2.0` | `2.3.2`
`org.webjars.npm:stompjs` | `2.3.3` | `2.3.3`
`org.webjars.bower:sockjs-client` | `1.1.0` | `1.1.1`
URL: https://github.com/donhuvy/lsb/wiki
Just for those that are trying to do this on Jira
. Just add \\
at the end of each line and a new line will be created:
|Something|Something else \\ that's rather long|Something else|
Will render this:
Source: Text breaks on Jira