[[ internal links | aliases ]] issue in tables' columns

[santiyounger]

Thanks for the amazing plugin, if it wasn't for this awesome plugin I was still going to emacs to create tables. Really happy to be able to make great tables from Obsidian.

I discovered an issue when it comes to using links with aliases inside links. in the form of something like: [[2020-11-25|today]]

here's an example table that works without any issues.

| day            | mood    |
| -------------- | ------- |
| [[2020-11-22]] | 5/5     | 
| [[2020-11-23]] | 4/5     | 
| [[2020-11-24]] | 5/5     | 

day	mood
[[2020-11-22]]	5/5
[[2020-11-23]]	4/5
[[2020-11-24]]	5/5

but if I use this format [[2020-11-25|today]] with the | vertical line, the table confuses it for a table division line.

Expected Behaviour

this is how I would like the table to format the last row.

| day                   | mood    |
| --------------------- | ------- |
| [[2020-11-22]]        | 5/5     | 
| [[2020-11-23]]        | 4/5     |
| [[2020-11-24]]        | 5/5     |
| [[2020-11-25|today]]  |         |

Current Behaviour

but currently, after pressing tab to format things the today]] section gets' split into the wrong column.

| day            | mood    |
| -------------- | ------- |
| [[2020-11-22]] | 5/5     | 
| [[2020-11-23]] | 4/5     | 
| [[2020-11-24]] | 5/5     | 
| [[2020-11-25   | today]] |

day	mood
[[2020-11-22]]	5/5
[[2020-11-23]]	4/5
[[2020-11-24]]	5/5
[[2020-11-25	today]]

Specs

Linux Manjaro XFCE
Obsidian 0.9.17
Advanced Tables Version: 0.6.2

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Edit

After thinking about it, this might not be a bug, but more of a request. (Feel free to relabel it)

Since this is something that would happen with tables inside of Obsidian without the plugin. If anything is more of a conflict of syntax.

Would really appreciate it if there was a way to work around this issue from within the plug in.

Thank you so much

[tgrosinger]

Oh yeah, that is definitely a problem. I think this needs to be split into two problems:

1. While editing, this plugin things that the | in the link denotes a new column, and will format the table accordingly
2. When the markdown is rendered, Obsidian thinks the | in the link denotes a new column, and renders the table incorrectly

I will work on fixing the first issue, but even with that fixed, the second issue will still persist. Maybe you can post the second issue in the forums or chat?

[santiyounger]

thanks @tgrosinger appreciate you taking a look at this.

Sounds good, if you can take a look from the plugin's side of things, and I'll make a post on the forum, just to make sure I post it right in the obsidian forum, would you say it's an obsidian bug, or a feature request?

Thanks!

[tgrosinger]

I think it's probably a bug, because they extended the Markdown syntax and in doing so introduced a bug in the rendering code.

[santiyounger]

got you, I'll report it in the forum as a bug, thanks!

[santiyounger]

Reported it here in the obsidian forum
[[ internal links | aliases ]] issue in tables' columns - Bug reports - Obsidian Forum

Thanks

[santiyounger]

apparently this can be easily solved with a \ before the |
like so [[2020-11-25\|today]]

| day                   | mood    |
| --------------------- | ------- |
| [[2020-11-22]]        | 5/5     | 
| [[2020-11-23]]        | 4/5     |
| [[2020-11-24]]        | 5/5     |
| [[2020-11-25\|today]]  | 5/5    |

day	mood
[[2020-11-22]]	5/5
[[2020-11-23]]	4/5
[[2020-11-24]]	5/5
[[2020-11-25|today]]	5/5

This solves it for me

Thanks for the help!

[tgrosinger]

Oh great. Thanks for reporting back.

[santiyounger]

thank you for taking the time to look at this, thanks for the great plugin!