How to Insert a Table to a Markdown File

Last edit: 13:35:45 2/24/2019

I have inserted a lot of tables recently in Markdown, so I might as well write an article about how to do that.

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Everything is easy in Markdown, including adding a table. To create a table, all you need is these three characters:

"-", "|", ":".

Let’s create a table of the test results of some students with these lines.

| Name | Number | Score | Rank |
| :---- | ----: | :----: | ---- |
Jack Dawson | 1 | 23 | 4
Rose Tyler | 2 | 89 | 2
| Li Lei | 3 | 59 | 3 |
Han Meimei | 4 | 93 | 1

Result:

Name	Number	Score	Rank
Jack Dawson	1	23	4
Rose Tyler	2	89	2
Li Lei	3	59	3
Han Meimei	4	93	1

These lines below are basically self-explanatory. But here are some points you should be aware of:

• A table can either have boarders or not. They both work.
• Even though a markdown file may seem different on different platforms or programs when previewing, these headers are usually bold.
• The colon character determines the adjustment mode of this column. “:—-“ or “—-“(no colon) stands for “left-adjusted”, “:—-:” stands for “central-adjusted”, “—-:” stands for “right-adjusted”.

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