Markdown tables not parsed correctly
Summary
Gitlab flavored markdown does not render the following code as a table:
| id | name | email | bal |
| -: | - | - | -: |
| 5 | chris | foo | 12089 |
Expected behavior
That code is properly rendered as a table in Github, dillinger.io, stackedit.io.
Actual behavior
Gitlab renders as a line of plain text like so:
| id | name | email | bal | | -: | - | - | -: | | 5 | chris | foo | 12089 |
Possible fixes
Currently, the separating line needs at least three dashes for each cell to be rendered as a table in Gitlab:
With three dashes:
| id | name | email | bal |
| ---: | --- | --- | ---: |
| 5 | chris | foo | 12089 |
Renders:
id | name | bal | |
---|---|---|---|
5 | chris | foo | 12089 |
According to the documentation, Gitlab uses the Redcarpet Ruby library for markdown parsing. Looking at this issue from that repo, they do not require the three dashes for table separators, so I wasn't sure why Gitlab does.