Pipes inside image alt text lead to unwanted table output

[kleinfreund]

The following...

![What | is | wrong](/img.jpg)

outputs this:

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>![What</td>
      <td>is</td>
      <td>wrong](/img.jpg)</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

This is unexpected. Inside an image alt text/link text shouldn't be any markup.

[gettalong]

This is a known problem, see #46.

[kleinfreund]

Will it be fixed? Or can we somehow disable kramdown tables?

[gettalong]

It will certainly be fixed but I can't tell you when.

You can subclass the kramdown parser and remove the table parsing method. Have a look at the Markdown parser or the GFM parser for examples.

[gettalong]

You can work around this specific case by escaping the pipe symbols:

![What \| is \| wrong](/img.jpg)

This will currently result in:

<p><img src="/img.jpg" alt="What \| is \| wrong" /></p>

The next version will contain a fix so that any escaped character (see http://kramdown.gettalong.org/syntax.html#automatic-and-manual-escaping) in the alternative text will be unescaped:

<p><img src="/img.jpg" alt="What | is | wrong" /></p>

This should mitigate the problem in this case.

[whuwangyong]

The bug is still there? I am struggling with it. There version is 2.3.

[gettalong]

@whuwangyong See #431 (comment)