Interactive CheckBoxes INSIDE a Table

navlar · 2019-07-11T16:28:55.351Z

Is there a way to get interactive Checkboxes to work INSIDE a Table in Joplin

(they do in Github Markdown)
Interactive checkboxes work outside tables, can we make them work inside a table?

Here’s the plain text In Joplin

Task	Time required	Current Status	Finished
Calendar Cache	> 5 hours	in progress	- [x] ok?
Object Cache	> 5 hours	in progress	[x] item1 [ ] item2
Object Cache	> 5 hours	in progress	- [x] item1 - [ ] item2
Object Cache	> 5 hours	in progress	[x] item1 [ ] item2

[x] works
[x] works too

This is how it looks in Joplin:

This is how it looks in Github markdown

Results:

Joplin has interactive checkboxes outside of tables
In Joplin checkboxes don’t work at all INSIDE tables
Github markdown has interactive checkboxes both inside and outside Tables

Question:

Is this a MISSING FEATURE or a BUG?

Workaround:

use special characters (not interactive)

EXAMPLE:

Task	Time required	Current Status	Finished ☐ 🗹
Calendar Cache	> 5 hours	in progress	🗹
Object Cache	> 5 hours	in progress	🗹
Object Cache	> 5 hours	in progress	☐
Object Cache	> 5 hours	in progress	☐

tessus · 2019-07-11T19:06:26.377Z

This came up in this forum already, and I think on gh as well.

AFAIK this is not markdown specification. It is not supported and it won’t be supported, unless you can convince Laurent otherwise.

tessus · 2019-07-26T20:54:29.844Z

See also Laurent's answer in another topic:

Checkbox within table cell Support

No it’s not possible due to a limitation of the underlying Markdown renderer.

navlar · 2019-07-27T06:44:45.809Z

Thanks for the info

Nico7as · 2023-08-21T10:26:32.939Z

HI everyone!

In the 4 years that has past, was there any improvement of the renderer that would allow for checkboxes in a table?

laurent · 2023-08-21T10:36:24.053Z

No, but an idea floating around is to save the tables as HTML when they contain non-valid Markdown code:

github.com/laurent22/joplin

Code blocks inside of table cells don't persist after switching between the markdown editor and the WYSIWYG editor.

opened 07:26PM - 29 Jul 23 UTC

fmotion1

bug desktop editor high

## Environment Joplin version: 2.12.9 Platform: Windows OS specifics: Windo…ws 10 Pro x64  ## Steps to reproduce 1. Switch to WYSIWYG mode. 2. Create a table. 3. Create a code block inside one of the cells. 4. Switch back to the markdown editor mode. 5. Switch back to WYSIWYG mode. 6. Code block is now just an inline code block. Here's a video: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/assets/33441569/0cc63710-0a98-41a1-bab3-1cf21a686f0e  ## Describe what you expected to happen The code block in the table to persist.