diff --git a/toMkdocs/gridTableTools.py b/toMkdocs/gridTableTools.py
index 305c94594d6752a60de536ff33350a75c31256f7..2b1f2f7af55514028670f54632eec556eb98b101 100644
--- a/toMkdocs/gridTableTools.py
+++ b/toMkdocs/gridTableTools.py
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ def parseGridTableWithSpans(gridTable:str) -> tuple[GridTableRowList, GridTableR
 	nextListElementMark = '@'
 	
 	# Split the input into lines
-	lines:list[str] = [line.strip() for line in gridTable.strip().split('\n')]
+	lines:list[str] = [line for line in gridTable.split('\n')]
 
 
 	# Detect separator lines by pattern (it does not take into account partial separators