Markdown for creating checkbox inside a table

[ngeshlew]

Use case or problem

I am able to draw checkbox in a plain note following these instructions from [ Markdown for Checkbox requires 6 keystrokes. Reduce it to 2?:

To create a checkbox in Obsidian’s markdown, the current implementation requires 6 keystrokes (correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe all 6 are necessary):

1. Dash
2. Space
3. Open bracket
4. Space
5. Close bracket
6. Space

Output	Formatting

I am creating a table and I would like to check off something once I’m done with it to signify it’s complete like below:

Output

The problem is that:

1. You cannot use the same process to create a checkbox that has text with it in the same line
2. You cannot create a checkbox that doesn’t have text before or after it while in a single cell in a table.

Proposed solution

Making it easy to find in the documentation of how to add a checkbox in a table or checkbox that has text before or after it.

Current workaround

I’ve experimented on a couple of solutions from Stack overflow but this response one seems to work best:

Output	Formatting

Pasting this when you want to have an enabled checkbox.

<input type="checkbox" />

Related feature requests

Markdown for Checkbox requires 6 keystrokes. Reduce it to 2?

To create a checkbox in Obsidian’s markdown, the current implementation requires 6 keystrokes (correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe all 6 are necessary): Dash Space Open bracket Space Close bracket Space It could be much less. In Notion, for example, it’s 2: Open bracket Close bracket In Roam, it’s 3: Open bracket Close bracket Space Any reason we need to have all 6? Can we support a shorter formula as well?