diff --git a/src/lib/documents/editor.integration.test.tsx b/src/lib/documents/editor.integration.test.tsx
index 89929e7..28607b3 100644
--- a/src/lib/documents/editor.integration.test.tsx
+++ b/src/lib/documents/editor.integration.test.tsx
@@ -31,9 +31,7 @@ function createEditor(): Editor {
 describe('editor schema + sanitizer', () => {
   it('rejects javascript: link hrefs end to end', () => {
     const editor = createEditor();
-    editor.commands.setContent('<p><a href="javascript:alert(1)">click</a></p>', {
-      contentType: 'html',
-    });
+    editor.commands.setContent('<p><a href="javascript:alert(1)">click</a></p>');
     // The unsafe href must not survive into the document.
     expect(editor.getHTML()).not.toContain('javascript:');
     editor.destroy();
@@ -41,9 +39,7 @@ describe('editor schema + sanitizer', () => {
 
   it('keeps safe link hrefs', () => {
     const editor = createEditor();
-    editor.commands.setContent('<p><a href="https://example.com">click</a></p>', {
-      contentType: 'html',
-    });
+    editor.commands.setContent('<p><a href="https://example.com">click</a></p>');
     expect(editor.getHTML()).toContain('https://example.com');
     editor.destroy();
   });
@@ -51,7 +47,7 @@ describe('editor schema + sanitizer', () => {
   it('drops script content pasted as HTML', () => {
     const editor = createEditor();
     const sanitized = sanitizeHtml('<p>hello</p><script>alert(1)</script>');
-    editor.commands.setContent(sanitized, { contentType: 'html' });
+    editor.commands.setContent(sanitized);
     expect(editor.getText()).toContain('hello');
     expect(editor.getHTML()).not.toContain('<script');
     editor.destroy();
@@ -59,9 +55,7 @@ describe('editor schema + sanitizer', () => {
 
   it('serializes typed content to portable Markdown', () => {
     const editor = createEditor();
-    editor.commands.setContent('<h1>Title</h1><p>Some <strong>bold</strong> text</p>', {
-      contentType: 'html',
-    });
+    editor.commands.setContent('<h1>Title</h1><p>Some <strong>bold</strong> text</p>');
     expect(docToMarkdown(editor.getJSON())).toBe('# Title\n\nSome **bold** text');
     editor.destroy();
   });
diff --git a/src/lib/documents/markdown.test.ts b/src/lib/documents/markdown.test.ts
index e59c031..f053ab1 100644
--- a/src/lib/documents/markdown.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/documents/markdown.test.ts
@@ -124,6 +124,27 @@ describe('docToMarkdown', () => {
     );
   });
 
+  it('keeps pipes and newlines in table cells from breaking the table', () => {
+    const input = doc({
+      type: 'table',
+      content: [
+        {
+          type: 'tableRow',
+          content: [
+            { type: 'tableHeader', content: [para(text('a|b'))] },
+            { type: 'tableHeader', content: [para(text('c'))] },
+          ],
+        },
+      ],
+    });
+    // The pipe is rewritten to the full-width form so the row still parses as
+    // exactly two cells.
+    expect(docToMarkdown(input)).toBe('| a¦b | c |\n| --- | --- |');
+    // And it round-trips back to a two-cell table.
+    const parsed = markdownToDoc('| a¦b | c |\n| --- | --- |');
+    expect(docToMarkdown(parsed)).toBe('| a¦b | c |\n| --- | --- |');
+  });
+
   it('escapes characters that would change meaning', () => {
     const input = para(text('1. not a list # not a heading *not italic*'));
     expect(docToMarkdown(doc(input))).toBe('1\\. not a list \\# not a heading \\*not italic\\*');
diff --git a/src/lib/documents/markdown.ts b/src/lib/documents/markdown.ts
index aa9025e..2bbc7fd 100644
--- a/src/lib/documents/markdown.ts
+++ b/src/lib/documents/markdown.ts
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ const MENTION_PATTERN = /^nostr:((npub|nprofile|note|nevent|naddr)1[02-9ac-hj-np
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 function escapeText(text: string): string {
-  // Escape every ASCII punctuation character. CommonMark defines a backslash
-  // before ASCII punctuation as the literal character, so this is uniform,
-  // always round-trips, and needs no positional special cases.
+  // Escape every CommonMark-significant ASCII punctuation character. These
+  // are exactly the characters a backslash escapes per the spec, so the
+  // output is uniform, always round-trips, and needs no positional cases.
   return text.replace(/([!"#$%&'()*+,\-./:;<=>?@[\\\]^_`{|}~])/g, '\\$1');
 }
 
@@ -151,7 +151,12 @@ function serializeTable(node: JSONContent): string[] {
       const text = (cell.content ?? [])
         .map((block) => serializeInline(block.content))
         .join(' ')
-        .replace(/\|/g, '\\|')
+        // Inside a table row a pipe would break the cell boundary and a
+        // newline would break the row. The inline text has already had any
+        // `|` escaped to `\|`; rewrite that escaped pipe (and any bare one)
+        // to the full-width `¦` so the row keeps its structural cells without
+        // emitting a backslash. Newlines become a space.
+        .replace(/\\?\|/g, '¦')
         .replace(/\n/g, ' ')
         .trim();
       cells.push(text);
@@ -463,18 +468,21 @@ export function markdownToDoc(markdown: string): JSONContent {
     // Table: header row, | --- | separator, then body rows.
     if (/^\|.*\|\s*$/.test(line) && i + 1 < lines.length && /^\|[\s:|-]+\|\s*$/.test(lines[i + 1])) {
       flushParagraph();
-      const parseRow = (row: string, header: boolean): JSONContent => ({
+          const parseRow = (row: string, header: boolean): JSONContent => ({
         type: 'tableRow',
         content: row
           .replace(/^\|/, '')
           .replace(/\|$/, '')
+          // Cells split on a bare `|`; a backslash-escaped `\|` stays inline.
           .split(/(?<!\\)\|/)
           .map((cell) => ({
             type: header ? 'tableHeader' : 'tableCell',
             content: [
               {
                 type: 'paragraph',
-                content: parseInline(cell.replace(/\\\|/g, '|').trim()),
+                // `\|` (external GFM) and `¦` (our own full-width form) both
+                // restore to a literal pipe in the cell text.
+                content: parseInline(cell.replace(/\\\|/g, '|').replace(/¦/g, '|').trim()),
               },
             ],
           })),