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Is it possible to create a table in Markdown? If not would it be possible to add this functionality? Even if it just means adding <table> <tr> and <td> to the list of allowed HTML tags.

This would greatly help questions that discuss data in the way that this one does: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4206/bing-and-yahoo-traffic-is-still-non-existent

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No, this isn't possible right now. Vote up this request if it's something you'd like to see. We would almost certainly add it just by unblocking the tags, rather than trying to extend the Markdown syntax.

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Though I have seen users manage to create tables... Example: askaboutprojects.com/questions/1308/… Could someone explain how it works? – tucson Feb 8 at 16:53
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 @tucson that has been done by using spaces, if you indent a block with 4 spaces it will become mono-spaced and you can use ASCII characters like the | and - to draw rudimentary tables – Rich Seller Feb 8 at 17:04
@Rich Seller Thank you (again :) – tucson Feb 8 at 19:41

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