Markdown for simple tables doesn't seem to be 100%

  • Unknown's avatar
    dek46656 · Member ·

    I’ve been trying to use Markdown, and set up a test post with different Markdown (Extra) entries. I did this so I could see how it looked (by previewing the post), and to have some copy/paste source text when I went to use it.
    When working with the simple tables, the only “feature” that works is the table being created, nothing more. I’ve tried to change alignment of the columns (using links your site provides to how it works), and it doesn’t work.
    Now for this one there is no documentation stating that this can happen, but what I would also like to have is that all cells show a border, but the only border I get around the row, and the entire table.
    I could show you the sample post, but it is in “Draft” status.
    Thanks…

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    Staff will be answering your markdown question as I tagged this thread for them. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notifed when that happens.

    NOTEs:
    If you use Windows Live Writer it has a tablemaker > http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/
    To create your own HTML tables see here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/table-coding-for-wordpress-com-users/

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    dek46656 · Member ·

    I’ve been trying Live Writer, and have mixed opinions on it. I’m thinking of trying something else in place of it.
    I can hand code HTML tables, but was hoping not to have to go to that route: its part of the reason I’m looking at using Markdown: I really like the way it handles stuff (code block especially).
    This “ask” was specifically about Markdown and how it displays tables. It appears to be a bug with the implementation.

  • andrewspittle · Staff ·

    It’s possible there’s a bug in the table implementation. In general tables in HTML can be finicky.

    Could you either let me know in this thread the title of the draft post with the example or email the details to help@wordpress.com if you’d like the thread to be private? Thanks.

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    dek46656 · Member ·

    I called the post “Markdown Compilation”, and its Shortlink is http://wp.me/p4lQIP-M

    A sample of the markdown is like this:
    | First Header | Second Header |
    | ———— | ————-: |
    | First Column | Second Column |

  • andrewspittle · Staff ·

    Okay, great. And what you’re specifically trying to set up there is the borders around all cells that you mentioned earlier, right?

    Each theme on WordPress.com controls the table styles separately. So inline styles through Markdown are likely getting overridden through the theme. Your current theme, for example, has this style that’s impacting that table:

    .post-entry tr td {
border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
}
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    dek46656 · Member ·

    OK, that is an interesting discovery: the “theme” overrides Markdown (or Markdown Extra).

    Should this be tossed back to the folks who produced the theme, or should I consider a new theme? I understand that you can’t (well… shouldn’t) recommend one theme over another, but this was something advertised by WordPress as a feature.

    Is it possible to produce a feature matrix between the themes? OK, I know that’s asking a lot for the number of themes involved, but possibly the “free” ones?

    Also, just to be clear (I just re-read the thread, and I appear to not be very clear in it), I’m looking to have the following features in a quick table: column alignment, and borders around all of the cells involved (think Excel).

    Thanks for the support, and decent customer service (it seems to be rare these days).

    Sincerely…

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    kardotim · Member ·

    Sorry for the delay. Could you perhaps show an exactly of what kind of matrix/table you’d like to have in your post or page?

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