Grok Bot: markdown tables cannot line-break inside a cell

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Grok Bot chat markdown tables cannot break inside a cell.

Tried:

  • HTML <br> — renders as literal text
  • Unicode line separator U+2028 — does not stack

Workaround: one item per row, repeating the group column.

Why it matters: exec-style tables (one app, several names). Early beta.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Ask Grok Bot in chat for a markdown table where one cell should contain several stacked lines (e.g. one app with several names).
  2. Observe the rendered table in chat.
  3. Try HTML <br> inside the cell — it renders as literal text.
  4. Try Unicode line separator U+2028 inside the cell — lines do not stack.

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Cursor (latest stable), Grok Bot chat — early beta

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey Peter!
Thanks for the detailed writeup. You’ve read it right: Grok Bot chat currently renders table cells as single-line, so a raw <br> shows up as literal text and a U+2028 separator collapses to a space. That’s not something on your end, and it isn’t meant to be a hard limit. We’ve let the team know and it’s an issue we’re tracking.

Until in-cell line breaks are supported, the workaround you already found is the best one: one row per line, repeating the grouping column. If you only need the values visually separated rather than truly stacked, listing them in a single cell with commas or a middot (·) also reads cleanly.

I’ll post here when there’s an update.