Tables are used to show some data in a two-dimensional fashion. In zettelmarkup, table 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 as 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 sing 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+0060) specifies an alignment to the left, * the greater-than sign character (>, U+0062) 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||, U+007C), followed by a percent sign character (“%”, U+0025)) will be ignored. For example, this allows to specify a horizontal rule that is not rendered. Such tables are emitted by some commands of the [administrator console](00001004100000). For example, the command `get-config box` will emit: |=Key | Value | Description |%-----------+--------+--------------------------- | defdirtype | notify | Default directory box type This is rendered in HTML as: