Using tables with RedCloth inserts a lot of extra <br/> before each table

Question

I am using the tables in RedCloth, for example

|cat|yeah|what|
|beery|true|fly|
|baru|false|mirror|

But I get a lot of <br/> and then the table....

What is going on and how can I fix this?

Answer 1

That table doesn't produce any <br/>s when formatted using the redcloth.org "try it" box on their homepage. However, something like this:

a
|cat|yeah|what|
|beery|true|fly|
|baru|false|mirror|

produces:

<p>a<br />
|cat|yeah|what|<br />
|beery|true|fly|<br />
|baru|false|mirror|</p>

So I would guess that you have a paragraph right before the tables without a blank link separating them. Adding an empty line:

a

|cat|yeah|what|
|beery|true|fly|
|baru|false|mirror|

Produces what is probably the desired result:

<p>a</p>
<table>
    <tr>
        <td>cat</td>
        <td>yeah</td>
        <td>what</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>beery</td>
        <td>true</td>
        <td>fly</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>baru</td>
        <td>false</td>
        <td>mirror</td>
    </tr>
</table>