Formatting code block inside table cell in MD

[Dmitry Korotkov]

Hi!

In out team we try to use BitBucket to store test cases in Markdown format. The main goal is to maintain test cases as a code, including pull requests, automatic QG etc.

Our usual test case looks like a table:

| #    | Description   | Expected result                                       |
| ---- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------|
| 1    | Call some API | Answer ```json-object {"responce" : "Hello world!"}```|

 Unfortunately  BitBucket doesn't format code block inside table cell. Splitting it to several lines manually using <br> also doesn't work.  In one line it looks unreadable. Is there any workaround?

[Kiran Muddaiah]

In your table, you can use  `<br>` to create line breaks within a table cell.
This is an **HTML line break tag** and is commonly used in Markdown tables to:

| # | Description | Expected result |
|----|---------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1 | Call some API | <br>{<br> "response": "Hello world!",<br> "status": 200,<br> "iamlong": true<br>}<br> |

[VICTOR-OSEGHALE]

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for reaching out here.

I have used the table you provided in the comment as a sample table, and added some new rows with a few formats as shown in the image attached.

Looking at the rendered view, it properly formats the the code blocks within the cells as expected;

For my case, I have used Bitbucket Server 5.14.0 for this. What version of Bitbucket Server instance are you using to test this out ?

Kind Regards,
Victor.

[Dmitry Korotkov]

Victor, thank you for your answer.

I think it was my fault to provide a bad example, let me try once more :) 

First exaple is code block with json syntax highlighting NOT in a table cell. It's OK.

Now I try to get the same result in a table cell.

Next example shows that I can't use multiline code block in table cell, ok.

In the third one I try to use br in one-liner and it doesn't work. Highlighting doesn't work aslo.

In last example is the only workaround I could find, but it looks not very beautiful and still no highlighting.

We use Atlassian Bitbucket v5.11.1

[VICTOR-OSEGHALE]

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for the feedback.

Add the text format of this test case for me to get a better insight on this.

Kind Regards,
Victor.

[Dmitry Korotkov]

Victor,

here it is:

```json
{
"responce" : "Hello world!", 
"status": 200,
"iamlong": true
}
```

| # | Description | Expected result |
| ---- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------|
| 1 | Call some API | Answer ```json
 {
 "responce" : "Hello world!", 
 "status": 200,
 "iamlong": true
 }
 ```|
 
 
| # | Description | Expected result |
| ---- | ----------------------- | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1 | Call <br> some <br> API | Answer ```json {"responce" : "Hello world!", <br> "status": 200, "iamlong": true } ``` | 
| 2 | Call some API | Answer `{"responce" : "Hello world!", ` <br> ` "status": 200, ` <br> ` "iamlong": true }`|

[Devora Hosseinof]

Hi - I'm looking for the answer to Dmitry's question and I don't see it. Can someone help me?
I need to add a code block of multiple lines into a table cell.