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# markdown-table
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Generate fancy [Markdown][fancy]/ASCII tables.
## Installation
[npm][]:
```bash
npm install markdown-table
```
## Usage
Normal usage (defaults to left-alignment):
```javascript
var table = require('markdown-table')
table([
['Branch', 'Commit'],
['master', '0123456789abcdef'],
['staging', 'fedcba9876543210']
])
```
Yields:
```markdown
| Branch | Commit |
| ------- | ---------------- |
| master | 0123456789abcdef |
| staging | fedcba9876543210 |
```
With alignment:
```javascript
table(
[
['Beep', 'No.', 'Boop'],
['beep', '1024', 'xyz'],
['boop', '3388450', 'tuv'],
['foo', '10106', 'qrstuv'],
['bar', '45', 'lmno']
],
{
align: ['l', 'c', 'r']
}
)
```
Yields:
```markdown
| Beep | No. | Boop |
| :--- | :-----: | -----: |
| beep | 1024 | xyz |
| boop | 3388450 | tuv |
| foo | 10106 | qrstuv |
| bar | 45 | lmno |
```
Alignment on dots:
```javascript
table([['No.'], ['0.1.2'], ['11.22.33'], ['5.6.'], ['1.22222']], {
align: '.'
})
```
Yields:
```markdown
| No. |
| :---------: |
| 0.1.2 |
| 11.22.33 |
| 5.6. |
| 1.22222 |
```
## API
### `markdownTable(table[, options])`
Turns a given matrix of strings (an array of arrays of strings) into a table.
##### `options`
###### `options.align`
One style for all columns, or styles for their respective columns (`string` or
`Array.<string>`). Each style is either `'l'` (left), `'r'` (right), `'c'`
(centre), or `'.'` (dot). Other values are treated as `''`, which doesnt place
the colon but does left align. _Only the lowercased first character is used,
so `Right` is fine._
###### `options.delimiter`
Value to insert between cells (`string`, default: `' | '`). Careful, setting
this to a non-pipe breaks GitHub Flavoured Markdown.
###### `options.start`
Value to insert at the beginning of every row (`string`, default: `'| '`).
###### `options.end`
Value to insert at the end of every row (`string`, default: `' |'`).
###### `options.rule`
Whether to display a rule between the header and the body of the table
(`boolean`, default: `true`). Careful, will break GitHub Flavoured Markdown
when `false`.
###### `options.stringLength`
Method to detect the length of a cell (`Function`, default: `s => s.length`).
ANSI-sequences mess up tables on terminals. To fix this, you have to
pass in a `stringLength` option to detect the visible length of a
cell.
```javascript
var strip = require('strip-ansi')
function stringLength(cell) {
return strip(cell).length
}
```
###### `options.pad`
Whether to pad the markdown for table cells to make them the same width
(`boolean`, default: `true`). Setting this to false will cause the table
rows to remain staggered.
## Inspiration
The original idea and basic implementation was inspired by James
Hallidays [text-table][] library.
## License
[MIT][license] © [Titus Wormer][author]
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[fancy]: https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/#tables
[text-table]: https://github.com/substack/text-table