It's not that inconvenient if you omit unnecessary closing tags:

    <tr>
    <td> first
    <td> second
    <tr>
    <td> what
    <td> ever

I find it simpler and cleaner than any of the markdown table markups

▲ myfonj 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Fair point, though /DT and /DD are also optional just like /TH, /TD and /TR are. So in effect, def…scription list could structurally save you one TR for each entry and two "BLE"s:

    <table><tr><th>Term 1<td>Definition 1
           <tr><th>Term 2<td>Definition 2
    </table>
    <dl><dt>Term 1<dd>Definition 1
        <dt>Term 2<dd>Definition 2
    </dl>

▲ debesyla 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn't markdown table just a bunch of | ?

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zufallsheld 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That's the problem.

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froh 4 hours ago | parent [-]

most specifically the problem is that markdown tables don't allow breaking the table row in multiple lines

but then you can always use HTML tables in markdown and Pandoc transforms it just fine

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hnlmorg 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

<br> has worked fine whenever I’ve needed line breaking in markdown tables

	▲	quietbritishjim 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think they mean breaking the line in the markup, not the output
	▲	xigoi 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They mean in the Markdown code, not in the output.

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jazzypants 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Every markdown implementation is supposed to allow inline HTML.