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Line breaks inside table cells not being kept going from RT to MD
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html
mode - rich text
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/360648/395497
<br> included in table cell markup. Switch to RT, the newline shows up. Switch back to MD the <br> is missing
Was originally on #32, breaking out into its own issue now
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue by placing a
in a table cell, switching from Markdown to Rich Text and back, and checking whether the line break remains. Trace the Rich Text-to-Markdown conversion path; done means the table cell retains the line break when returning to Markdown.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100