title: Zettelmarkup: Tables role: manual tags: #manual #zettelmarkup #zettelstore syntax: zmk back: 00001007010000 00001007030000 00001007800000 00001007990000 00001012920513 backward: 00001007010000 00001007030000 00001007800000 00001007990000 00001012920513 box-number: 1 copyright: (c) 2020-present by Detlef Stern created: 20210126175322 forward: 00001004100000 00001007040000 lang: en license: EUPL-1.2-or-later modified: 20251208182745 published: 20251208182745 visibility: public Tables are used to show some data in a two-dimensional fashion. In zettelmarkup, tables are not specified explicitly, but by entering *table rows*. Therefore, a table can be seen as a sequence of table rows. A table row is nothing but a sequence of *table cells*. The length of a table is the number of table rows, the width of a table is the maximum length of its rows. The first cell of a row must begin with the vertical bar character (“`|`”, U+007C) at the first position of a line. The other cells of a row begin with the same vertical bar character at later positions in that line. A cell is delimited by the vertical bar character of the next cell or by the end of the current line. A vertical bar character as the last character of a line will not result in a table cell. It will be ignored. Inside a cell, you can specify any [inline elements](00001007040000). For example: | a1 | a2 | a3| | b1 | b2 | b3 | c1 | c2 will be rendered in HTML as: # Header row If any cell in the first row of a table contains an equal sign character (“`=`”, U+003D) as the very first character, then this first row will be interpreted as a *table header* row. For example: | a1 | a2 |= a3| | b1 | b2 | b3 | c1 | c2 will be rendered in HTML as: # Column alignment Inside a header row, you can specify the alignment of each header cell by a given character as the last character of a cell. The alignment of a header cell determines the alignment of every cell in the same column. The following characters specify the alignment: * the colon character (“`:`”, U+003A) forces a centered alignment, * the less-than sign character (“`<`”, U+003C) specifies an alignment to the left, * the greater-than sign character (“`>`”, U+003E) will produce right aligned cells. If no alignment character is given, a default alignment is used. For example: |=Left<|Right>|Center:|Default |123456|123456|123456|123456| |123|123|123|123 will be rendered in HTML as: # Cell alignment To specify the alignment of an individual cell, you can enter these characters for alignment as the first character of that cell. For example: |=Left<|Right>|Center:|Default |>R|:C|