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Jan 4, 2021 at 17:59 history edited animusonStaffMod
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Dec 16, 2020 at 4:36 comment added ppwater Um, can we make this status-completed now?
Nov 28, 2020 at 6:27 history closed Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
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Duplicate of New Feature: Table Support
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Nov 24, 2020 at 1:00 comment added V2Blast Relevant update: Stack Exchange is rolling out native table support. It goes into testing today on MSE and on the DBA Meta, then rolls out to DBA.SE itself a week later, and will be available network-wide a week after that. It uses "GitHub-flavored Markdown" table syntax (since CommonMark doesn't include a specification for tables at the moment).
Oct 10, 2020 at 3:23 answer added TheMaster timeline score: 3
Sep 24, 2020 at 15:34 history edited CatijaStaffMod
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Sep 24, 2020 at 15:25 answer added iBug says Reinstate Monica timeline score: 8
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Jan 12, 2020 at 8:02 answer added Jayani Sumudini timeline score: 1
Jun 30, 2019 at 15:21 answer added Tejas Shetty timeline score: 2
Apr 22, 2019 at 11:11 comment added Miriam Just another example where it would've been great
Dec 6, 2018 at 12:55 comment added Brian Burns FWIW I put a +50 bounty on this question to try to see if anything had changed, but there was no response, so I put my points on meta.stackexchange.com/a/290841/234615, which mentioned some progress. Original bounty notes: "@Shog9 marked this as status-declined in April 2014 - see meta.stackexchange.com/a/228464/234615. I'd like to re-open this feature request and see if things might have changed. I'd vote for GFM or CommonMark tables." Here's hoping they continue work on this feature!
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Sep 28, 2018 at 14:22 comment added endolith This answer would be improved by an editable table: stackoverflow.com/a/48940855/125507
Sep 24, 2018 at 11:12 comment added Cees Timmerman Here's a pretty ASCII table, after a link and screenshot of a broken Google Docs spreadsheet.
Sep 14, 2018 at 9:07 answer added saurssaurav timeline score: 3
Dec 22, 2017 at 19:58 review Close votes
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Nov 24, 2017 at 14:05 answer added aloisdg timeline score: 16
Jul 29, 2017 at 4:22 comment added John Militer Images!­
May 12, 2017 at 14:06 comment added endolith Here's another example
Mar 12, 2017 at 3:03 answer added William Entriken timeline score: 1
Mar 7, 2017 at 22:13 comment added cjm It's completely unacceptable that we have to abuse code blocks to fake tables to provide example data for our SQL questions. Why hasn't this been implemented years ago?
Feb 9, 2017 at 6:13 answer added Arulkumar timeline score: 18
Feb 3, 2017 at 20:26 comment added Donald Duck Why is this status-declined? I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be implemented.
Aug 1, 2016 at 18:05 history edited This_is_NOT_a_forum CC BY-SA 3.0
Copy edited (e.g. ref. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown>).
Jun 28, 2016 at 13:31 comment added Peter Raeves Here I am, in the year 2016 and still no table markdown... I guess stackexchange just doesn't care about table formatting
Jun 9, 2016 at 13:24 answer added Karl timeline score: 5
Apr 20, 2016 at 17:05 comment added Gabe Doesn't work on stackedit.io/editor, the second answer does
Dec 10, 2015 at 14:41 answer added Pandya timeline score: 7
Dec 4, 2015 at 9:36 answer added Somnath Muluk timeline score: 25
Oct 15, 2015 at 11:31 comment added Sweeper Why not use HTML? Is the table tag not supported? I hope it is.
Aug 18, 2015 at 15:52 answer added user2284570 timeline score: 8
Jul 14, 2015 at 14:13 answer added Pollyanna timeline score: 15
Oct 17, 2014 at 5:49 comment added phuclv I think GitHub Flavored Markdown is more appropriate for a programming site like SO. It also supports crreating tables
May 10, 2014 at 7:34 answer added Jack Douglas timeline score: 64
Apr 5, 2014 at 3:19 answer added Shog9Mod timeline score: -6
Apr 5, 2014 at 3:18 history edited Shog9Mod
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Jan 22, 2014 at 0:20 answer added Dɑvïd timeline score: 28
Oct 18, 2013 at 21:15 answer added Paul 'Joey' McMurdie timeline score: 11
Aug 12, 2013 at 3:44 answer added gung - Reinstate Monica timeline score: 48
May 14, 2013 at 19:54 comment added Janus Troelsen Here's how to generate ASCII tables from Python data structures: stackoverflow.com/questions/5909873/…
Apr 12, 2013 at 22:24 comment added TRiG @MichaelMrozek. It also happens on EL&U with users presenting data from corpora in tabular form.
Mar 27, 2013 at 12:17 comment added BenMorel GitHub Flavored Markdown supports them: github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet#tables
Mar 3, 2013 at 8:24 comment added uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN Here is another example: stackapps.com/questions/288/…
Feb 20, 2013 at 15:50 comment added Kelly S. French @MichaelMrozek: Another example where tables would have been useful. I'm trying to number the sections of a regular expression to make it easier to illustrate what each is doing. Simple tables would have made the horizontal alignment much easier.
Oct 10, 2012 at 13:32 comment added endolith @MichaelMrozek: "Do you have any example posts of people mangling tables?" electronics.stackexchange.com/a/42266/142
Aug 6, 2012 at 7:22 comment added jippie This is how they solve tables on MediaWiki: mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables At first it looks a bit complicated, but if you carefully look at it, it isn't too bad at all. It saves a lot of typing effort in comparison with the (unsupported) html markup and manual formtting in code blocks. Just my €0.02
Jul 7, 2012 at 17:01 answer added Arjan timeline score: 150
Jul 6, 2012 at 19:12 comment added daviesgeek Here's an example of an answer that needs table formatting: apple.stackexchange.com/a/55729/7833
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Apr 5, 2012 at 14:15 answer added Manishearth timeline score: 110
Apr 5, 2012 at 13:57 answer added hohner timeline score: 10
Mar 5, 2012 at 1:19 vote accept leora
Sep 29, 2011 at 20:08 comment added JohnFx @Michael Mrozek - Are you kidding? I see multiple examples of mangled tables every day.
Aug 20, 2011 at 16:10 comment added Arjan Markdown, no. But Johannes posted a nice example in Please add support for tables in answers and questions, using Google Chart Tools. That needs some manual URL-encoding though, to use it in Markdown. (Johannes simply posted a screenshot there; don't be fooled! ;-))
Dec 30, 2010 at 18:43 comment added jball Found through @KennyTM's link, another non-SQL table use: truth tables
Dec 30, 2010 at 18:14 comment added kennytm meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16356/…
Dec 30, 2010 at 17:49 history edited Jon Seigel
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Dec 30, 2010 at 17:40 comment added jball @Michael Mrozek - I've run across performance comparisons or feature comparisons that are munged into the code formatting. It would be nice to see them (and the SQL posts) formatted more nicely.
Dec 30, 2010 at 17:06 comment added Michael Mrozek @Pekka Sure, I'm not against it, but the OP said "It seems like a lot of people try to display tables in SO questions but don't do a very good job", which I've not really seen
Dec 30, 2010 at 16:45 answer added Ben Shelock timeline score: 176
Dec 30, 2010 at 16:43 comment added Pekka @Michael mmm, arguably, people don't mangle tables because they don't use them in the first case because the functionality isn't there. It would come in handy sometimes to have a possibility to present tabular data, although I don't know how to implement it exactly (Converting the way I show in my answer into a real <table> might be one possibility)
Dec 30, 2010 at 15:09 comment added Michael Mrozek Other than SQL posts, how often does this actually happen? Do you have any example posts of people mangling tables?
Dec 30, 2010 at 14:45 answer added GreenMatt timeline score: 14
Dec 30, 2010 at 14:37 answer added bernd_k timeline score: 9
Dec 30, 2010 at 14:36 answer added Pekka timeline score: 431
Dec 30, 2010 at 14:31 history edited ЯegDwight CC BY-SA 2.5
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