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user391986
user391986

Reputation: 30906

GitHub Markdown colspan

Is there a way to have colspan on GitHub Markdown?

I'm trying to create a table where one row takes up four columns.

| One     | Two        | Three   | Four          | 
| ------------- |-------------| ---------| ------------- |
| One                | Two               | Three          | Four                |

| One     | Two        | Three   | Four          | 
| ------------- |-------------| ---------| ------------- |
| Span Across ||||

You can see a live preview by pasting the above here.

Upvotes: 161

Views: 207915

Answers (4)

fregante
fregante

Reputation: 31718

You can use HTML tables on GitHub (but not on StackOverflow)

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>One</td>
    <td>Two</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2">Three</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Becomes

HTML table output

Upvotes: 121

sherdim
sherdim

Reputation: 1236

Compromise minimum solution:

| One    | Two | Three | Four    | Five  | Six 
| -
| Span <td colspan=3>triple  <td colspan=2>double

So you can omit closing </td> for speed, оr can leave for consistency.

Result from http://markdown-here.com/livedemo.html : markdown table with colspan

Works in Jupyter Markdown.

Update:

As of 2019 year all pipes in the second line are compulsory in Jupyter Markdown.

| One    | Two | Three | Four    | Five  | Six
|-|-|-|-|-|-
| Span <td colspan=3>triple  <td colspan=2>double

minimally (does not work at Jupyter Lab):

One    | Two | Three | Four    | Five  | Six
-|||||-
Span <td colspan=3>triple  <td colspan=2>double

Upvotes: 88

landerlyoung
landerlyoung

Reputation: 1810

There is no way to do so. Either use an HTML table, or put the same text on several cells.

like this:

| Can Reorder | 2nd operation |2nd operation |2nd operation |
| :---: | --- |
|1st operation|Normal Load <br/>Normal Store| Volatile Load <br/>MonitorEnter|Volatile Store<br/> MonitorExit|
|Normal Load <br/> Normal Store| | | No|
|Volatile Load <br/> MonitorEnter| No|No|No|
|Volatile store <br/> MonitorExit| | No|No|

which looks like

HTML table

Upvotes: 25

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 678

I recently needed to do the same thing, and was pleased that the colspan worked fine with consecutive pipes ||

MultiMarkdown v4.5

Tested on v4.5 (latest on macports) and the v5.4 (latest on homebrew). Not sure why it doesn't work on the live preview site you provide.

A simple test that I started with was:

| Header ||
|--------------|
| 0 | 1 |

using the command:

multimarkdown -t html test.md > test.html

Upvotes: 18

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