If the last column is active, move to the first cell in the next row. You have the following shortcuts at your disposal: To save your changes, make sure to click outside of the table once you are done, to exit the editing mode! Only then will the changes you've made to the table be applied to the underlying Markdown table. These are buttons that will appear when you hover over the table and let you perform various actions on the table.Īttention! When you activate the table by clicking inside one of the cells, you are entering the edit mode. Additionally, adding and removing columns and rows is also possible with the table editor's edge buttons. Additionally, the keyboard navigation that you know from famous word processors has also been implemented so that you can use Tab, Return, and the Arrow keys to navigate the table. The active cell will be highlighted for you. You can enter the editing mode simply by clicking into any of the cells inside the table and adding your content. When enabled, it will recognize the tables in the active document and make them easily editable. The table editor needs to be enabled in Preferences, under the Editor tab. If you want to preview any of these items in tables, you may have to disable the table editor in Preferences. This completely hides the Markdown source but in this case this approach is much more favourable than the WYSIWYM approach.Īttention! The table editor still has problems with rendering citations, footnotes, and math formulae. Much better, am I right? Zettlr's table editor takes all Markdown tables found in your document, converts them into an HTML representation with editable content cells, and displays these instead of the underlying Markdown. With the table editor, the above mentioned table looks like this: To aid you with writing tables, Zettlr ships with a powerful table editor that brings to you everything you need to not completely lose your mind while creating tables in your documents. It would be great if you could simply edit the table like you are used to from, e.g., Word processors, right? That's where Zettlr's built-in table editor comes into play! Obviously, writing Markdown tables is sometimes unavoidable, but always painful. Without the counter in the first column, you would even have a hard time making out the number of rows in it. In Zettlr, it would look like the following:Įven though the table cells are each aligned to fit the total width of each column, you cannot make out the fact that this is indeed a valid Markdown table, as each line gets wrapped and the table structure is impossible to see. | 4 | Your Mom | Are you in an argument with a philosopher? Try this Freudian-tested kill-all-argument! | priceless | 1 | This multi-purpose towel is the ideal companion in case your planet is about to be exterminated. | 3 | Towel | We all know that you always should bring a towel to any intergalactic journey. | 2 | E-11 Rifle | Trusted by imperial troops, this rifle is the least accurate, but still most used weapon in the Galaxy. It replaces all of your current tools to account for a multi-dimensional journey through space and time. | 1 | Sonic Screwdriver | A device for all purposes. Take for instance the following example: | # | Name | Description | Price | Quantity | As you cannot use multiple rows for cells, here's where you tend to get into serious problems when you need to insert a whole sentence in each cell. The table will be exported using the correct alignment later on.īut as you can see, even with only two words per column, the Markdown table tends to get rather long. Note that it doesn't matter how you align the table's contents in your documents, as long as the colons are placed accordingly. Optionally, you can also add a heading row, which may also indicate the alignment using colons (left, right, or center): | Left aligned | Centered content | Right aligned | Tables in Markdown are written using a very basic syntax - each line resembles one row and the table cells are encapsulated with pipe-characters: | Cell A:A | Cell A:B | Yet, from time to time, we also want to include some data in our works, or tables are simply a better way of visualising ideas. Markdown is the perfect choice for writing text and most of what we use during writing (e.g., links, images, headings, or quotes) is handled perfectly in Markdown. Due to the nature of Markdown to be as simple as possible, complexity is what suffers most. Markdown tables are a notoriously difficult thing.
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