two table parse-block issues, possibly related about kramdown

[gettalong]

ad 1) This is to be expected. HTML <div> elements can contain block level elements and are therefore parsed with the block parser if parse_html_blocks=true. However, a <table> and a <tr> element can contain neither block level elements nor span level elements and therefore they are parsed as raw HTML element and once the HTML parser is in this mode, only an explicit markdown="..." attribute can change it.

ad 2) If the content of an HTML element is parsed with the block level parser, everything after the start tag is considered the first line. Since this means the block level parser sees **Item**</td>, it parses this as paragraph element and tries to find the closing tag on one of the next lines. This is described in the description of HTML Blocks in the kramdown syntax documentation.