Cannot indent tables

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Steps to reproduce

  1. Open new note in live preview mode
  2. Create a table
  3. Select the table and at least 1 line above/below table
  4. Press tab to indent
  5. The content is now indented, but is no longer interpreted/rendered as a table in live preview or reading view

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Yes

Expected result

Tables should work/render regardless of indent level

Actual result

Tables only work at the base level with no indention

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.5.3
Installer version: v1.4.16
Operating system: Windows 10 Pro 10.0.22621
Login status: not logged in
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

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Additional information

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2

Not a bug.
You cannot indent anything in markdown that way. It’s interpreted as code.

3

I have used other markdown editors that seem to work fine interpreting indented tables, at least if within a list context (Github, VSCode). Using within a list would be my primary use case anyway, so maybe I should have used that as my example.

For reference, this gets interpreted as an indented table within VSCode:

1. Item 1
2. Item 2 with table
    | Table | Test |
    | --- | --- |
    | A | B |
3. Item 3
4

That’s a different thing. 1) You are trying to put a table within a list. 2) We require tables to have one blank line above them.

5

Thanks for the clarification, good to know! With that in mind, it does look like the table gets rendered in reading mode but not live preview. I can edit my top level report to reflect that (unless you think it’s better to close this one and open a new one?)

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OK, I’ll go ahead and mark this one as having a solution based on my original post, and create a new one about tables not working as expected when within a list. Thanks again for your help!

7

No need:

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