I'm running into this problem in my R Markdown template for making academic CVs with pagedown, and I can't figure out what's causing it or how to solve it. Here's a minimal reproducible example:

Create an R Markdown file with this content:

---
output: pagedown::html_paged
---

```{r, echo=FALSE, message=FALSE}
library(dplyr)

tibble(
  id = 1:100,
  content = "here's a line<br>and here's another line"
) |> 
  knitr::kable()
```

When a page break divides up the content in second-column cells, then the remaining cell content is erroneously placed in the first column instead of in the second column:

Any idea about how to fix this?