Questions tagged [tables]
For questions about the display of tables in Stack Exchange posts or other pages.
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Rendering bug for MarkDown table [duplicate]
I found out that a table with a "title" that rendered correctly in MarkDown during editing in the preview doesn't render correctly during rendering once posted.
Title
This | is
----|-----
a |...
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Is there a way to align images to the top in a table?
I don't know if this question was answered before.
Is there a way to align images to the top in a table:
Picture one
Picture two
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Eeek! Footer can be broken when certain code is inserted to a post
On the SO post https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46677752/the-difference-between-requirex-and-import-x#:~:text=require%20uses%20module.,more%20or%20less%20like%20module.
The footer style is ...
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Bolding in the first cell may remove it from the table
I noticed this bug in my Lit answer when I bolded the first column in some rows. The preview works (as it always does). The actual post does not, and those bolded cells are just missing:
Occasionally ...
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Missing a backtick from Markdown table in preview was well rendered, but not server side
Related: https://askubuntu.com/a/1464175/93706
In the table below, 1{print} is missing its closing backtick. The preview handles this well by having it render as plain text instead of code but when ...
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What tool is there for creating Stack Exchange markup language tables which do not involve typing the tables one key-stroke at a time?
The Stack Exchange (SE) network has many different websites to support the learning of natural languages.
Links to some of these SE sites are provided below:
German / Deutsch |
Spanish / Espanol
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Cannot post question - 'Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code'
I am trying to post a question to Stack Overflow (and also relevant on a few other sites) but am met with the following message:
Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as ...
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Tables just became broken in Markdown preview
I just tried to insert a table while writing a post but it appeared broken in the preview. I used the basic example shown in the "formatting tips" to confirm:
| A header | Another header |
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Clickable links on the editing help page redirect to the top of the help page
There are two sections, "Alignment" and "Syntax details", under the "Tables" section on the Markdown Editing Help page.
It has the below clickable links:
https://meta....
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Add SQL script creation to tables
Now that we can finally use formatted tables in questions and answers, I suggest enhancing the feature to also optionally generate an SQL CREATE+INSERT script for each table in a question.
We can use ...
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Is there a way to combine multiple columns in a table? [duplicate]
I would like to create a table that has some combined columns.
Something like this:
| title 1 | title 2 | title 3 |
|:-------:|:-------:|:-------:|
| info 1 & 2 | info 3 |
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Drawing a Checkbox In a Table For a Question
How can I put checkbox column in a table in a question?
for example:
car name
Option1(checkbox - yes/no)
a
yes
b
no
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Pasting from Microsoft Excel defaults to pasting an image via the Uploader™ [duplicate]
I'm trying to make a markdown table in Microsoft Excel, I copied multiple rows then went to paste the text into a post, and I get this result:
Whereas I'd have expected the table to have been pasted ...
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Markdown tables with unmatched backtick \` should either not show as a table in preview or show correctly after preview
I spotted a discrepancy between Markdown preview and posted questions. This discrepancy also holds for answers.
When using unmatched backticks ` inside a table cell, like in following source:
|header1|...
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Why has the parsing of the in tables changed?
I am used to using the HTML character to visually fill out the width and/or height of tables so they are used to their full potential:
So that instead of this:
I get this:
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