Lists in markdown table (with Jekyll)

Question

I'm writing document with Jekyll/Markdown and its engine is kramdown.
And now I'm wondering the way to write lists in table built by markdown.

I tried following.

|Name   |Columns             |
|-------|--------------------|
|PRIMARY|<ul><li>id</li></ul>|

In GitHub's Gist, it's rendered as I thought.

But in Jekyll (my local one or GitHub Pages' one), it's not.
http://yuya-takeyama.github.io/2011/10/08/hello-github-pages.html

Is there any way to write lists in table in Jekyll?
I'll replace markdown engine if it's required.

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 12 '19 at 09:54

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nomarkdown tag helps:

|Name   |Columns                               |
|-------|--------------------------------------|
|PRIMARY|{::nomarkdown}<ul><li>id</li></ul>{:/}|

The solution works with both kramdown and redcarpet.

answered Sep 12 '19 at 09:54

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J.T. · Answer 2 · 2020-06-23T15:53:42.640

As we known, Jekyll uses kramdown as a default markdown converter from 2.0+. And It doesn't support the table cell alignment, merging and so on, I think the below can help you.

jekyll-spaceship - A Jekyll plugin to provide powerful supports for table, mathjax, plantuml, mermaid, emoji, video, youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, etc.

https://github.com/jeffreytse/jekyll-spaceship

For now, these extended features are provided:

Cells spanning multiple columns

Cells spanning multiple rows

Cells text align separately

Table header not required

Grouped table header rows or data rows

Markdown:

Code above would be parsed as:

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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I think Kramdown doesn't support multiline tables, and no HTML in table cells either (although I'm no Kramdown expert).

However, Pandoc has a few different table syntaxes, among them:

+---------+----------+
| Name    | Columns  |
+=========+==========+
| PRIMARY | - id one |
|         | - id two |
+---------+----------+

You can use, this plugin to use Pandoc from Jekyll. Note, that you'll have to run Jekyll locally since GitHub doesn't support Jekyll plugins.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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answered Nov 11 '14 at 17:17

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I tested the table by Yuya with my settings and it worked fine. – Phlow Nov 13 '14 at 20:45

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 26 '15 at 01:24

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This seems to maximize GitHub Markdown compatibility:

markdown: redcarpet
redcarpet:
  extensions:
    - no_intra_emphasis
    - fenced_code_blocks
    - autolink
    - tables
    - strikethrough
    - superscript
    - with_to_data

The extension addressing your question is tables, but you probably want the rest if you want your Gists to look like your pages for the same markup.

edited Sep 26 '15 at 01:24

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answered Sep 26 '15 at 00:24

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Unfortunately, GitHub Pages doesn't support *redcarpet* anymore, so you have to build the Jekyll Pages by yourself for this solution. – biolauri Sep 05 '19 at 12:32

score -3 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 10 '14 at 16:53

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Open _config.yml
Add markdown: kramdown
Run jekyll serve in your terminal.
Enjoy.

Please check out the kramdown manual for more information about how to pimp your tables: http://kramdown.gettalong.org/quickref.html#tables

answered Nov 10 '14 at 16:53

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This does not work. kramdown renders all elements outside of a table. But HTML lists inside a markdown table are not rendered. – udondan Nov 17 '17 at 15:29
That answer do not have a relationship to the question "multiline / lists inside a table" – KargWare Apr 15 '20 at 07:06

Lists in markdown table (with Jekyll)

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