Nested tables in markdown?

Question

I need to create a nested-like table in markdown like this:

How can I do that?

Answer 1

@Waylan is right, you can paste HTML (of a table generated with Markdown for example) inside a cell of Markdown table.

This requires some work because you need to examine the generated HTML of a rendered (fortunately browsers like Firefox let you examine the source of a rendered HTML).

The other drawback is that the result can be unreadable, for example:

|                |ASCII                          |HTML                         |
|----------------|-------------------------------|-----------------------------|
|Single backticks|`'Isn't this fun?'`            |'Isn't this fun?'            |
|Quotes          |`"Isn't this fun?"`            |<table>  <thead>  <tr>  <th></th>  <th>ASCII</th>  <th>HTML</th>  </tr>  </thead>  <tbody>  <tr>  <td>Single backticks</td>  <td><code>'Isn't this fun?'</code></td>  <td>‘Isn’t this fun?’</td>  </tr>  <tr>  <td>Quotes</td>  <td><code>"Isn't this fun?"</code></td>  <td>“Isn’t this fun?”</td>  </tr>  <tr>  <td>Dashes</td>  <td><code>-- is en-dash, --- is em-dash</code></td>  <td>– is en-dash, — is em-dash</td>  </tr>  </tbody>  </table>      |
|Dashes          |`-- is en-dash, --- is em-dash`|-- is en-dash, --- is em-dash|

renders to:

in the https://stackedit.io Editor.

Finally, your example would be something like:

|   |  Returned Value |
|--| -----------------|
| Version V2 |     <table>  <thead>  <tr>  Z-value</th>  <th>06</th>  </tr>  </thead>  <tbody>  <tr>  <td>Protocol</td>  <td>04 05</td>  </tr>  <tr>  <td>Protocol Sub</td>  <td>02</td>  </tr>  <tr>  <td>Application</td>  <td>11</td>  </tr>  <tr>  <td>Application Sub</td>  <td>00</td>  </tr>  </tbody>  </table>              |

and render into:

It is probably not worth it. Markdown is not for that (use LaTeX instead, or LaTeX embedded Markdown if you can)