Extended Table Syntax for Markdown

Tableau Tables gives you way more control over the tables you create in Markdown documents. tableau-marked is the version of Tableau for the Python Markdown processor.

Headers

• Headerless tables
• Multiline headers
• Multiple separate headers
• Headers in columns and rows
• Captions

Layout

• Layout uses CSS styles and not inline attributes (making it easier to change the style of a whole document)
• Per cell alignment and CSS classes
• Default attributes, both down columns and across rows
• Table-wide classes
• Row and column span
• Continuation lines

Here are some samples.

This repository contains a JavaScript library that handles most of the work of transforming a table description into HTML. However, by itself, it is not a Markdown processor plugin.

Instead, it is a library used by folks who want to write a plugin for their favorite Markdown processor.

If you're looking for an existing plugin, have a look at this list.

Writing a Plugin

There's a guide.