[BUG] Rich markdown printed to console only shows a single link in a column/ table cell

[cwerner]

• I've checked docs and closed issues for possible solutions.
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Describe the bug

I use Rich to format a pandas data frame with multiple links in some column to markdown and show it in the terminal. However, when there are more than a single link in a column rich only shows the last one?

from rich.console import Console
from rich.markdown import Markdown

import pandas as pd

md_table = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "links": ["[page1](https://www.example.com/page1), [page2](https://www.example.com/page2)"]
    }
).to_markdown()

console = Console()
console.print(Markdown(md_table))

Output:

      links  
 ━━━━━━━━━━━ 
  0   page2  

Expected

      links  
 ━━━━━━━━━━━ 
  0   page1, page2  

If I write the markdown to a file I get the expected table with multiple links...

Platform

platform="Darwin"
rich==13.5.2

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[willmcgugan]

Could you post the Markdown it generates?

[cwerner]

|    | links                                                                          |
|---:|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|  0 | [page1](https://www.example.com/page1), [page2](https://www.example.com/page2) |

[cwerner]

I actually discovered that the problem is that if there is a link in a table, only the link (and in case of multiple links the last one) is rendered.

For instance:

from rich.console import Console
from rich.markdown import Markdown

import pandas as pd

md_table = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "links": ["some text [page1](https://www.example.com/page1 )"]
    }
).to_markdown()

console = Console()
console.print(Markdown(md_table)) 

will result in:

      links  
 ━━━━━━━━━━━ 
  0   page1  

Thus, swallowing "some text" that was also present in this table cell. Not sure if this gives a clue about what might be wrong?

[willmcgugan]

This may also be present in Textual.

[davep]

This may also be present in Textual.

If I'm reading the issue correctly, it seems to be working fine in Textual (as seen via Frogmouth):

viewing this Markdown:

| One                                                        | Two       | Three                                 |
|------------------------------------------------------------|-----------|---------------------------------------|
| Some test [and then a link](https://textualize.io/)        | Just Text | [Just a link](https://textualize.io/) |
| Text [then a link](https://blog.davep.org/) then more text | Just Text | Some final text                       |

[willmcgugan]

Good to know. We must be doing something different in Rich.

[cwerner]

Oh nice. Wondering: Can I use textual to render my Markdown before I hand it over to console.print()until this bug is fixed? I haven't used textual before but don't mind this extra dependency for the moment...

[willmcgugan]

You can certainly use Textual, but it works differently from console.print. It creates an interactive window inside the terminal.

[rodrigogiraoserrao]

Consider this markdown file:

[page 1](https://mathspp.com)

| links |
| - |
| asdfasdf  [page 1](https://mathspp.com) |

Running python -m rich.markdown file.md will show the first link just fine but the one on the table doesn't:

page 1 (https://mathspp.com)


  links
 ━━━━━━━
  )

Putting text on the right of the table link makes the link go away and only displays that text:

file.md with text on the right.

[page 1](https://mathspp.com)

| links |
| - |
| asdfasdf  [page 1](https://mathspp.com) right |

Output of python -m rich.markdown file.md

page 1 (https://mathspp.com)


  links
 ━━━━━━━━
   right

---

Running with --hyperlinks does a slightly better job, but it still drops things.

With text on the right

file.md with text on the right.

[page 1](https://mathspp.com)

| links |
| - |
| asdfasdf  [page 1](https://mathspp.com) some text |

Output of python -m rich.markdown file.md -y

(The “page 1” has the proper link in the terminal)

page 1


  links
 ━━━━━━━━━━━━
   some text

---

Without text on the right

file.md without text on the right.

[page 1](https://mathspp.com)

| links |
| - |
| asdfasdf  [page 1](https://mathspp.com) |

Output of python -m rich.markdown file.md -y

(The output has the proper links in the terminal)

page 1


  links
 ━━━━━━━━
  page 1

[rodrigogiraoserrao]

Turns out we're seeing this interesting interaction with a bunch of inline styles in markdown.

The markdown below gets rendered into the output shown after that:

| stuff |
| - |
| asdfasdf  [page 1](https://mathspp.com) some text |
| This is `some code` here |
| This is `some code` |
| Can I set this to _italics_? |

  stuff
 ━━━━━━━━━━━━
   some text
   here
  some code
  ?

[rodrigogiraoserrao]

I've tracked the issue down to rich/markdown.py::TableDataElement.on_text, which should append to its content instead of setting it directly.

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I hope we solved your problem.

If you like using Rich, you might also enjoy Textual