Problems with using Attribute Lists for colspan and rowspan in tables

[AndreWin]

Hello!

I create documentation in mkdocs and use markdown.extensions.tables and markdown.extensions.attr_list extensions.

I created the following table:

| A | B |
|:-:|:-:|
| 1 {rowspan=2}| 2 |
| 3 |

I got the following result:

It seems to me, that table extension always generate the same td cells in each rows as in header. I'd like to turn off this feature. How can I quickly fix this?

Best regards,
Andrey.

[waylan]

Please see my comment to #74 for my position on any changes to the table syntax. I would also add that in addition to PHP Extra, our behavior matches the (very popular) GitHub Flavored Markdown which has its behavior defined in a formal spec. In fact, I just posted an answer to a question on StackOverflow about how to do rowspans on GitHub the other day. The same answer would apply to Python-Markdown. The one difference here is that you can provide your own extension (or use a third party extension) which alters the behavior as you see fit.

Regarding the fact that Attribute Lists do not work on tables, this is intentional. There are a number of elements which Attribute Lists cannot be defined for. For more info on that, see my comment to #312. Again, if you would like different behavior, you are free to develop your own extension and/or fork an existing one and modify it.