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0 points4111111111111113y ago0 comments

> actually wastes time because of the "___" and "|" scaffolding required.

I think you might be under a mistaken assumption here, because I don't think that this is factual.

The only way I could see your misunderstanding is if you think the quantity of whitespace in markdown tables is important, which it isn't.

This is a working md table and it's not harder to make then the equivalent html version

  |Header one|header two|
  |---|---|
  |Column value 1|column value one|
  |value 2|value two|

Etc

Wherever what's preferable is another story though.

Personally I dislike writing plain html, and would always prefer another template language to generate it, but that's just preference.

0 points4111111111111113y ago0 comments

> actually wastes time because of the "___" and "|" scaffolding required.

I think you might be under a mistaken assumption here, because I don't think that this is factual.

The only way I could see your misunderstanding is if you think the quantity of whitespace in markdown tables is important, which it isn't.

This is a working md table and it's not harder to make then the equivalent html version

  |Header one|header two|
  |---|---|
  |Column value 1|column value one|
  |value 2|value two|

Etc

Wherever what's preferable is another story though.

Personally I dislike writing plain html, and would always prefer another template language to generate it, but that's just preference.

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Turing_Machine3y ago· 2 in thread

> it's not harder to make then the equivalent html version

Much easier, I'd say.

    <table>
      <tr>
        <th>Header one</th>
        <th>header two</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Column value 1</td>
        <td>column value one</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>value two</td>
        <td>value two</td>
      </tr>
    </table>

411111111111111OP3y ago

Cleaner? Yes. easier? No.

Also note that you haven't actually done the same as my example.

You're missing <thead> and <tbody>

hgsgm3y ago

I don't know.

It's easier to remember the html tags and to see if they are correct.

In markdown I have to remember the weird punctuation and get the | counts exactly correct.

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throwawaaarrgh3y ago· 1 in thread

It is much, much harder to maintain a markdown table. You can keep html table cells on separate lines, and have newlines in them. Can't with markdown tables.

411111111111111OP3y ago

Now that I can agree on. Thankfully, md accepts inline html, so you can always just fall back to it for tables if you expect modifications in the future.

Though for the record, you should bee able to escape newlines with a backslash. That admittedly makes the md table into a total disaster, so not suggesting it as an actual option.

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