diff --git a/googletest/docs/primer.md b/googletest/docs/primer.md
index 7e03112d..260d50b8 100644
--- a/googletest/docs/primer.md
+++ b/googletest/docs/primer.md
@@ -219,18 +219,12 @@ as `ASSERT_EQ(expected, actual)`, so lots of existing code uses this order. Now
 The assertions in this group compare two **C strings**. If you want to compare
 two `string` objects, use `EXPECT_EQ`, `EXPECT_NE`, and etc instead.
 
-| Fatal assertion          | Nonfatal assertion       | Verifies               |
-| ------------------------ | ------------------------ | ---------------------- |
-| `ASSERT_STREQ(str1,`     | `EXPECT_STREQ(str1,`     | the two C strings have |
-| `str2);`                 | `str2);`                 | the same content       |
-| `ASSERT_STRNE(str1,`     | `EXPECT_STRNE(str1,`     | the two C strings have |
-| `str2);`                 | `str2);`                 | different contents     |
-| `ASSERT_STRCASEEQ(str1,` | `EXPECT_STRCASEEQ(str1,` | the two C strings have |
-| `str2);`                 | `str2);`                 | the same content,      |
-|                          |                          | ignoring case          |
-| `ASSERT_STRCASENE(str1,` | `EXPECT_STRCASENE(str1,` | the two C strings have |
-| `str2);`                 | `str2);`                 | different contents,    |
-|                          |                          | ignoring case          |
+| Fatal assertion                 | Nonfatal assertion              | Verifies                                                 |
+| ------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `ASSERT_STREQ(str1, str2);`     | `EXPECT_STREQ(str1, str2);`     | the two C strings have the same content                  |
+| `ASSERT_STRNE(str1, str2);`     | `EXPECT_STRNE(str1, str2);`     | the two C strings have different contents                |
+| `ASSERT_STRCASEEQ(str1, str2);` | `EXPECT_STRCASEEQ(str1, str2);` | the two C strings have the same content, ignoring case   |
+| `ASSERT_STRCASENE(str1, str2);` | `EXPECT_STRCASENE(str1, str2);` | the two C strings have different contents, ignoring case |
 
 Note that "CASE" in an assertion name means that case is ignored. A `NULL`
 pointer and an empty string are considered *different*.