diff --git a/src/tableFormatter.ts b/src/tableFormatter.ts
index bf7b7ea9..8923dcc9 100644
--- a/src/tableFormatter.ts
+++ b/src/tableFormatter.ts
@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ class MarkdownDocumentFormatter implements DocumentFormattingEditProvider {
         // Alignment of each column        
         let colAlign = []
         // Regex to extract cell content.
-        // Known issue: `\\|` is not correctly parsed as a valid delimiter
-        let fieldRegExp = new RegExp(/(?:((?:\\\||`.*?`|[^\|])*)\|)/gu);
+        // GitHub #24
+        let fieldRegExp = new RegExp(/((\\\||[^\|])*)\|/gu);
         // https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Spring_2003/ling538/UnicodeRanges.html
         let cjkRegex = /[\u3000-\u9fff\uac00-\ud7af\uff01-\uff60]/g;
 
diff --git a/src/test/suite/tableFormatter.test.ts b/src/test/suite/tableFormatter.test.ts
index 206c98f9..f9e96472 100644
--- a/src/test/suite/tableFormatter.test.ts
+++ b/src/test/suite/tableFormatter.test.ts
@@ -53,50 +53,37 @@ suite("Table formatter.", () => {
             new Selection(0, 0, 0, 0)).then(done, done);
     });
 
-    test("Contains `|`", done => {
+    test("Contains '|'", done => {
         testCommand('editor.action.formatDocument', {},
             [
                 '| a | b |',
                 '| --- | --- |',
-                '| c `a|b|c` | d `|` |'
+                '| c `a|b` | d |'
             ],
             new Selection(0, 0, 0, 0),
             [
-                '| a         | b     |',
-                '| --------- | ----- |',
-                '| c `a|b|c` | d `|` |'
+                '| a    | b   |',
+                '| ---- | --- |',
+                '| c `a | b`  | d |'
             ],
             new Selection(0, 0, 0, 0)).then(done, done);
     });
 
-    test("Contains ` |`", done => {
+    // https://github.github.com/gfm/#example-200
+    test(String.raw`Contains '\|'`, done => {
         testCommand('editor.action.formatDocument', {},
             [
                 '| a | b |',
                 '| --- | --- |',
-                '| c `a |b | c` | d `| ` |'
+                '| c `a\\|b`   | d |',
+                '| c **a\\|b** | d |'
             ],
             new Selection(0, 0, 0, 0),
             [
-                '| a            | b      |',
-                '| ------------ | ------ |',
-                '| c `a |b | c` | d `| ` |'
-            ],
-            new Selection(0, 0, 0, 0)).then(done, done);
-    });
-
-    test("Contains \\|", done => {
-        testCommand('editor.action.formatDocument', {},
-            [
-                '| a | b |',
-                '| --- | --- |',
-                '| c \\| b | d \\| |'
-            ],
-            new Selection(0, 0, 0, 0),
-            [
-                '| a      | b    |',
-                '| ------ | ---- |',
-                '| c \\| b | d \\| |'
+                '| a          | b   |',
+                '| ---------- | --- |',
+                '| c `a\\|b`   | d   |',
+                '| c **a\\|b** | d   |'
             ],
             new Selection(0, 0, 0, 0)).then(done, done);
     });
@@ -214,7 +201,7 @@ suite("Table formatter.", () => {
             new Selection(0, 0, 0, 0)).then(done, done)
     });
 
-    test("Contains \\| in last open cell", done => {
+    test("Contains '\\|' in last open cell", done => {
         testCommand('editor.action.formatDocument', {},
             [
                 '', // Changing the first expected char somehow crashes the selection logic and the test fails