When using Plan mode, the plan will often include a table, formatted in markdown. But, the viewer used by Cursor doesn’t render the tables properly. It seems that some kind of formatting is applied to the file when it’s opened in the cursor plan view, which creates new lines between table rows, and that messes up rendering.
I tried opening up the file in a text editor, removing the new lines, but when I go back to cursor, it applies those changes again and adds the new lines.
Steps to Reproduce
Ask Opus to generate a plan and ask it to include a table.
Very specifically, there seems to be some kind of reformatting of the file contents that breaks everything when it comes to tables. In the same plan I have two examples, one where there’s new lines between each table row that prevents rendering and the other one that has no new lines at all, like the entire table is in one row. Both of those are in the screenshot.
Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue that the team has already fixed. The fix was marked as completed on January 1, 2026.
You’re using version 2.2.44, try updating to the latest version (Help > Check for Updates). If the issue still happens after updating, please let us know and include the new version number.
Because its formatting is already messed up, I switched to the markdown mode and edited it.
I updated the table and saved.
I then went back to preview mode and it’s like the changes weren’t saved, The table is still not rendered and going back to markdown mode didn’t show the fix I made.
Maybe this is because it’s an old plan that was generated with the previous version? I’ll check on my next plan.
@deanrie just to be clear, I’ve noticed that tables in the chat view are rendering properly.
I’m referring to the preview rendering of a markdown file of an AI generated plan (in plan mode). The fact that opening the preview modifies the actual file content is the big smoking gun here and this is happening on the most recent version.
Having the exact same behavior as OP. Updated to version 2.3.29 and still having the same issue with both old and new plans.
I also tried manually editing the .md files but as soon as they are reopened in the Preview editor mode by Cursor, the blank lines are always re-added. Feels like the crux of the problem.
