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Thanks to optional closing tags, html5 tables are quite neat: <table> <tr> <td>first row, first column <td>first row, second column <td

Thanks to optional closing tags, html5 tables are quite neat: <table> <tr> <td>first row, first column <td>first row, second column <td>first row, third column <tr> <td>second row, first column <td>second row, second column <td>second row, third column </table> Does it get any better in markdown?

eviks 3y ago
The fact that you need to list columns in rows already makes it NOT a table
- bluGill 3y ago
  Both are diffult to read and work with.
  - eviks 3y ago
    both are difficult to work with since it's not the job of a data format, but table editing tooling on top of that, but the markdown tables that look like tables aren't difficult to read unlike HTML
subtra3t 3y ago
I'll convert your example to GFM. | first row, first column | first row, second column | first row, third column | | ------------------------ | ------------------------- | ------------------------ | | second row, first column | second row, second column | second row, third column | To me, this is more readable than the HTML version.
- kotborealis 3y ago
  It's not fun to manually reformat those tables for readability. If I add something to the `second row, second column`, I have to add extra spaces to the `first row, second column`, or it will look janky. | first row, first column | first row, second column | first row, third column | | ------------------------ | ------------------------- | ------------------------ | | second row, first column | exceptionally long second row, that makes second column look worse | second row, third column |