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Markdown: how to split a cell in a table

G'evening. I'm doing a page for a lab work report at the GitHub and I have to do a table similar to this using "Markdown": the table

How can I split a cell into 8 cells like it is done in the second (2) row of that table?

Solution

  • GitHub does not support this feature using pure markdown syntax. It does, however, support HTML tables as explained in this answer. You would have to use the colspan attribute on the <td> tag to tell how many columns that cell should span. Don't see it as splitting a cell, but more like merging multiple cells.

    It all boils down to whatever markdown processor you are using. Some do support markdown syntax for table cells to span multiple columns, and on the other hand, not all markdown processors support HTML syntax.