From a4f60ff9ea11a3fa26f7a845e7684b09c5501c4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil <neil@stably.ai>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 03:42:00 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(editor): preserve table cell line breaks

---
 .../rich-markdown-table-markdown.test.ts      | 42 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../editor/rich-markdown-table-markdown.ts    | 14 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-table-markdown.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-table-markdown.test.ts
index 819f226c833..b1bd334157b 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-table-markdown.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-table-markdown.test.ts
@@ -88,8 +88,50 @@ describe('compact Markdown table serialization', () => {
 
   it('counts alignment markers inside the separator width', () => {
     const node = table(['left', 'center', 'right'], [['a', 'b', '42']])
+    for (const [index, align] of ['left', 'center', 'right'].entries()) {
+      const header = node.content?.[0]?.content?.[index]
+      if (header) {
+        header.attrs = { align }
+      }
+    }
     const header = lines(renderTableToCompactMarkdown(node, helpers))[0]
     const rows = lines(renderTableToCompactMarkdown(node, helpers))
     expect(rows[1]?.length).toBe(header?.length)
+    expect(rows[1]).toContain(':---')
+    expect(rows[1]).toContain(':----:')
+    expect(rows[1]).toContain('---:')
+  })
+
+  it('keeps multiple blocks in a cell on one Markdown table row', () => {
+    const node: JSONContent = {
+      type: 'table',
+      content: [
+        {
+          type: 'tableRow',
+          content: [
+            {
+              type: 'tableHeader',
+              content: [{ type: 'paragraph', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Name' }] }]
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        {
+          type: 'tableRow',
+          content: [
+            {
+              type: 'tableCell',
+              content: [
+                { type: 'paragraph', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'first' }] },
+                { type: 'paragraph', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'second' }] }
+              ]
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+
+    const output = renderTableToCompactMarkdown(node, helpers)
+    expect(output).toContain('first<br>second')
+    expect(lines(output).every((line) => !line.includes('\n'))).toBe(true)
   })
 })
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-table-markdown.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-table-markdown.ts
index 3515d772d5a..6015943b88b 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-table-markdown.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-table-markdown.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ const MIN_COLUMN_WIDTH = 3
 const OUTLIER_MEDIAN_FACTOR = 2.5
 const MAX_COLUMN_WIDTH = 60
 const MAX_ALIGNED_TABLE_WIDTH = 160
+const CELL_LINE_SEPARATOR = '\u001F'
 
 function collapseWhitespace(value: string): string {
   return value.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim()
@@ -64,7 +65,18 @@ function separatorCell(width: number, align: TableCellAlign): string {
 function extractRows(node: JSONContent, helpers: MarkdownRendererHelpers): TableCell[][] {
   return (node.content ?? []).map((rowNode) =>
     (rowNode.content ?? []).map((cellNode) => ({
-      text: collapseWhitespace(cellNode.content ? helpers.renderChildren(cellNode.content) : ''),
+      text: collapseWhitespace(
+        (cellNode.content?.length ?? 0) > 1
+          ? cellNode.content
+              .map((child) => helpers.renderChildren(child))
+              .join(CELL_LINE_SEPARATOR)
+              .split(CELL_LINE_SEPARATOR)
+              .join('\n')
+              .replace(/[ \t]*\r?\n[ \t]*/g, '<br>')
+          : cellNode.content
+            ? helpers.renderChildren(cellNode.content)
+            : ''
+      ),
       isHeader: cellNode.type === 'tableHeader',
       align: normalizeAlign(cellNode.attrs)
     }))