Markdown Table Generator

Build a Markdown table without counting pipes

Type into the grid and the Markdown appears below it. Add and remove rows and columns with the buttons; the small arrow above each column cycles its alignment through default, left, centre and right.

Importing a table you already have

The Paste CSV / table tab takes three things:

• CSV or TSV - copied straight out of Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.
• Semicolon- or pipe-delimited text. The delimiter is detected for you.
• An existing Markdown table, including its alignment row, which loads back into the grid so you can edit it.

The two formatting options

• Align the source pads every cell so the pipes line up in a monospace editor. It makes no difference to how the table renders - it makes a difference to whoever reads the diff.
• Leading and trailing pipes wrap each row in|. GitHub accepts both, but the wrapped form is what most style guides ask for.

Notes on GitHub-flavored tables

A GFM table always has a header row - the separator line underneath it is what makes the block a table at all. A literal | in a cell is escaped to \|, and a newline inside a cell becomes <br>, because a table row has to stay on one line.

Related tools

• CSV to JSON - the same data, as JSON.
• Markdown to HTML - render the finished table.