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    <p>I believe @Naor is right: You must use HTML to create line breaks, though that is not demonstrated in the answer. And the full table code displayed is not strictly necessary: To achieve a line break you only need double space or <code>&lt;br /&gt;</code> tag. <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax" rel="nofollow">From the Markdown spec</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Markdown supports “hard-wrapped” text paragraphs. This differs significantly from most other text-to-HTML formatters (including Movable Type’s “Convert Line Breaks” option) which translate every line break character in a paragraph into a <code>&lt;br /&gt;</code> tag.</p> <p>When you do want to insert a <code>&lt;br /&gt;</code> break tag using Markdown, you end a line with two or more spaces, then type return.</p> </blockquote> <p>Note that I had to add code wrappers to the text because the SO-flavored Markdown requires HTML break tags are escaped - so we know <code>&lt;br /&gt;</code> works.</p> <p>But, if you want to do something a bit more complex, like I am* you can set various properties with HTML like so:</p> <pre><code>&lt;table width="300"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; This is some text &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; This is some somewhat longer block of text &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; This is some very long block of text repeated to make it even longer. This is some very long block of text repeated to make it even longer. This is some very long block of text repeated to make it even longer. &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <p>I tried adding <code>style="width:75%"</code> to the <code>&lt;td&gt;</code>s, to no affect.</p> <p>*I should note I came across this because I am having similar problems writing code within tables using GitHub-flavored Markdown, which is very painful. But I'm noting this because it should color the examples I give: Any thing I say 'works' or 'doesn't work' comes from that environment.</p> <p><em>EDIT: It might be further worth noting this is irrelevant if you have <code>code</code> blocks within your table. This isn't an issue with Markdown though: HTML <code>&lt;code&gt;&lt;/code&gt;</code> blocks cause the table to stretch.</em></p>
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