What Markdown table format does this generate?

It generates GitHub-flavored Markdown (GFM) tables — the pipe-and-dash syntax used by GitHub, GitLab, most static-site generators, and dochost itself. The header row is followed by a divider row whose colons encode alignment (:--- left, :---: center, ---: right). This is the most widely supported table syntax in the Markdown ecosystem.

How do I set column alignment?

Click the small alignment button next to each column header to cycle through left, center, and right. The change is reflected immediately in the generated divider row (the :---, :---:, or ---: markers), so the table renders aligned wherever you paste it.

What happens if a cell contains a pipe character?

A raw | inside a cell would normally break the table by starting a new column. The generator escapes it to \| automatically and collapses any line breaks inside a cell, so your content stays in the cell it belongs to and the table remains valid.

Can I turn the table into a link instead of copying syntax?

Yes. Click “Publish this table as a page” and dochost hosts the rendered table at its own URL — useful when the person you are sharing with does not want raw Markdown. Free links last seven days; paid plans keep them permanent.

Markdown table generator — build a table, copy the syntax

Fill in a grid, set column alignment, and get clean GitHub-flavored Markdown table syntax. Copy it, or publish the table as a shareable page.

Edit the grid, set alignment, and copy clean GFM table syntax — or publish it as a link.

Markdown

| Column 1 | Column 2 |
| :--- | :--- |
|   |   |
|   |   |

Writing a Markdown table by hand is fiddly: every row needs the right number of pipes, the header divider has to line up, and one missing | quietly breaks the whole table. A generator removes the bookkeeping — you edit cells in a normal grid and the correct | --- | --- | syntax is produced for you.

This generator runs entirely in your browser. Add rows and columns, type your data, click a column header to cycle its alignment (left, center, right), and copy the generated Markdown straight into a README, a GitHub issue, a docs page, or anywhere else that renders GitHub-flavored Markdown. When you want a link instead of raw syntax, publish the table as a clean hosted page in one click.

Three steps to a Markdown table

1. Add the rows and columns you need, then type your data into the grid.
2. Click a column header’s alignment button to set left, center, or right.
3. Copy the generated Markdown — or click Publish to share the table as a link.

A real example

Sam maintains the README for an open-source CLI and needs to document the new command flags. A plain bullet list was getting hard to scan, so a table made more sense — but hand-aligning pipes in a text editor had bitten Sam before, where a single stray | in a description cell collapsed the table into one broken row on GitHub.

Sam opened the generator and set three columns: Flag, Default, and Description. The Flag column was left-aligned, Default centered, and Description left-aligned. Sam added six rows, one per flag, and typed a description that itself contained a pipe character — the generator escaped it automatically so the table stayed intact.

With the grid filled in, Sam clicked Copy and pasted the Markdown into the README. It rendered as a clean, aligned table on the first try. Sam also clicked Publish to get a hosted link of the same table, then dropped that link into the project chat so a teammate could review the flag list without pulling the branch.

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