Is there a way to input a newline into a table cell? For example, say I have a table like this:
+----------+----------+----------+
| Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 |
+==========+==========+==========+
| Item 1 | | |
| Item 2 | | |
+----------+----------+----------+
I want the above to create a table with two rows, three columns, and the second row, first column to display Item 1 and Item 2 on separate lines.
I have tried the line blocks syntax |, but it doesn't work inside a table cell. I can use list syntax, but I don't want bullet points to appear.
First of all I think your table syntax is incorrect, should it not be:
+----------+----------+----------+
| Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 |
+==========+==========+==========+
| Item 1 | | |
| Item 2 | | |
+----------+----------+----------+
Note that the top row is made up of hyphens, not equal signs, and the rows are separated by pipes, |
, not plus signs.
Now with this table, the line block syntax:
+----------+----------+----------+
| Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 |
+==========+==========+==========+
| | Item 1 | | |
| | Item 2 | | |
+----------+----------+----------+
seems to work: testing with Pandoc the bottom left cell gets transformed into the following HTML:
<td align="left">Item 1<br />Item 2</td>
Note the line break <br />
in between Item 1
and Item 2
.
You can also leave a gap between the lines like this
+----------+----------+----------+
| Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 |
+==========+==========+==========+
| Item 1 | | |
| | | |
| Item 2 | | |
+----------+----------+----------+
This method tends to be friendlier with editors so they dont think you have accidentally added an extra pipe