fletcher/peg-multimarkdown — Issue #105: Column alignments in tables
Author: knipling
Created: 2012-02-08 21:06:54+00:00
State: open

I'm having a problem with how Multimarkdown creates tables. In particular, how it (i) imposes a column alignment of by default and (ii) how it applies an alignment to each cell element.

For example, a is applied to a column when, in fact, there is no explicitly specified alignment. Moreover, an alignment is applied to each	and	. In addition to making for bloated HTML code, this also limits the styling of the table by CSS. For example, within a certain column I would like to center the	cells but have the	cells aligned differently. This can be done with CSS (tr > td:nth-child(1), for example) but the way Multimarkdown generates the HTML makes this impossible.

I would rather Multimarkdown not explicitly assign a column alignment and an alignment on each	.

For examples, see this discussion about Brett Terpstra's Marked.app:
http://support.markedapp.com/discussions/problems/173-column-alignments-in-tables