Multi-line table cell in reStructuredText?

Question

Is there a way to input a newline into a table cell? For example, say I have a table like this:

+----------+----------+----------+
| Header 1 | Header 2 | Header         


        

Answer 1

First of all I think your table syntax is incorrect, should it not be:

+----------+----------+----------+
| Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 |
+==========+==========+==========+
| Item 1   |          |          |
| Item 2   |          |          |
+----------+----------+----------+

Note that the top row is made up of hyphens, not equal signs, and the rows are separated by pipes, |, not plus signs.

Now with this table, the line block syntax:

+----------+----------+----------+
| Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 |
+==========+==========+==========+
| | Item 1 |          |          |
| | Item 2 |          |          |
+----------+----------+----------+

seems to work: testing with Pandoc the bottom left cell gets transformed into the following HTML:

Item 1
Item 2

Note the line break
in between Item 1 and Item 2.