# table

URL: /patitas/api/plugins/table/
Section: plugins
Description: Table plugin for Patitas (GFM-style pipe tables).

Adds support for GitHub-Flavored Markdown tables.

Usage:
    >>> md = create_markdown(plugins=["table"])
    >>> md("| A | B |
|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |")
    '<table><thead><tr><th>A</th><th>B</th></tr></thead>...'

Syntax:
| Header 1 | Header 2 |
|----------|----------|
| Cell 1   | Cell 2   |

Alignment:
| Left | Center | Right |
|:-----|:------:|------:|
| L    |   C    |     R |

Features:
- Column alignment via :--- :--: ---:
- Inline markdown in cells
- Pipes can be escaped with ``\|``

Thread Safety:
This plugin is stateless and thread-safe.

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Module

#
`plugins.table`

Table plugin for Patitas (GFM-style pipe tables).

Adds support for GitHub-Flavored Markdown tables.

Usage:

```
>>> md = create_markdown(plugins=["table"])
>>> md("| A | B |
```

|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |")
'AB...'

Syntax:

Header 1
Header 2

Cell 1
Cell 2

Alignment:

Left
Center
Right

L
C
R

Features:

- Column alignment via :--- :--: ---:

- Inline markdown in cells

- Pipes can be escaped with`\|`

Thread Safety:

This plugin is stateless and thread-safe.

1Class

## Classes

`TablePlugin`

1

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Plugin adding GFM table support.

Tables are detected at the block level when a line starts with |
…

Plugin adding GFM table support.

Tables are detected at the block level when a line starts with |
and is followed by a delimiter row (|---|---|).

Enable via Markdown(plugins=["table"]).

Note: The actual parsing is controlled by ParseConfig.tables_enabled,
which is set by the Markdown class based on the plugins list.

#### Methods

`name`

0

`str`

▼

property

`def name(self) -> str`

##### Returns

`str`