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>Embed HTML (more or less preferred, depending on your situation)

But then you can't embed markdown inside the HTML, like code blocks inside a table. Sure you can use <pre><code> tags, but then you lose syntax highlighting.

Actually I've always wondered why no MD renderer supports something like

    <code data-lang="js">

which it then treats the same as a

    ```js

code block. Or a pseudo <x-markdown> element...

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Kramdown supports this with markdown="1" as an attribute on html tags: http://kramdown.gettalong.org/syntax.html#html-blocks

Not only are you correct, you allowed me to find an equivalent feature in CommonMark! If there is an empty line between some content and its wrapping HTML tags then that content will be interpreted as markdown. So

    <td>
    
    ```js
    console.log("Hello, world!");
    ```
    
    </td>

will work as expected. http://spec.commonmark.org/0.26/#example-118 and further discussion at http://spec.commonmark.org/0.26/#example-153

VSCode's markdown preview renderer ( https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it ) implements CommonMark, so I'm very happy right now :)

> But then you can't embed markdown inside the HTML, like code blocks inside a table. Sure you can use <pre><code> tags, but then you lose syntax highlighting.

Pandoc supports this with the `markdown_in_html_blocks` option.

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