Add spanned columns in tables #176

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1. adam-p

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2. adam-p commented on Aug 13, 2014

   

   adam-p

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   Can you provide pointers toward the spanning syntax used in other MD variants?

   Unsatisfying workaround: You can use raw HTML, like so:

   <table>
       <tr>
           <th>Col 1</th>
           <th>Col 2</th>
           <th>Col 3</th>
       </tr>
       <tr>
           <td colspan="2">span 2 cols</td>
           <td rowspan="2">span 2 rows</td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
           <td>stuff</td>
           <td>stuff</td>
       </tr>
   </table>​
   

   Except that because of #157 it won't actually render very nicely -- it'll work a lot better if you put all the HTML on a single line.

   search keywords: colspan rowspan

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3. adam-p commented on Mar 3, 2015

   

   adam-p

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   A follow-up to this...

   It seems that MultiMarkdown does have colspan syntax, but not rowspan.

   Probably the best way to do rowspan and colspan right now is to use this online HTML table generator to create your table, and then paste it into your email (or whatever) and use MDH to render it. Make sure to check the boxes for "Do not generate CSS" (because MDH provides the CSS) and "Compact mode" (to avoid the multi-line HTML problem I mentioned above).

   (I'm also going to add that to the Tips & Tricks wiki page.)
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5. sixtyfive commented on Nov 5, 2016

   

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   Hi @adam-p! Do you think it would be feasible to implement rowspan in a Markdown parser at all?
6. CTimmerman commented on Jul 23, 2018

   

   CTimmerman

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   I like Textile's syntax for spans:

   A backslash \ is used for a column span.

   |\2. spans two cols |
   | col 1 | col 2 |

   A forward slash / is used for a row span.

   |/3. spans 3 rows | row a |
   | row b |
   | row c |

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7. voronin-de commented on Dec 8, 2021

   

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   Uhm.. so no rowspan or colspan unless we write HTML? :/
8. sixtyfive commented on Dec 8, 2021

   

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   that link is dead btw, @CTimmerman
9. CTimmerman commented on Dec 8, 2021

   

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   that link is dead btw, @CTimmerman

   Then use inline HTML instead. https://stackoverflow.com/a/35485694/819417
10. sixtyfive commented on Dec 8, 2021

    

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    that was easy to misunderstand, apologies. i meant that the link to Textile's docs that you posted above ("https://txstyle.org/doc/15/tables") is dead. it should be https://textile-lang.com/doc/tables instead.

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11. CTimmerman commented on Dec 9, 2021

    

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    that was easy to misunderstand, apologies. i meant that the link to Textile's docs that you posted above ("https://txstyle.org/doc/15/tables") is dead. it should be https://textile-lang.com/doc/tables instead.

    Thanks. I couldn't find the new link due to https://pypi.org/project/TxtStyle/ which is probably why they renamed it.