Using markdown tables

[Nam Hải (MiraiHanabi)]

**It's still not working!!!**

[Michal Klucz]

are we still lost in 2024?

[Deleted user]

The docs on this are extremely confusing and misleading. This has to be fixed Atlassian.

[Sean Smith]

I tweeted the founders about this. Maybe others can hit some social media channels to get some attention? 

@mcannonbrookes @brooksy
@scottfarkas

[Dima Kankalovich]

Came to the party to express my frustration with how BAAAAD markdown support is.

Not only these poor tables but also code blocks won't work!

This really ruins the experience, I just don't understand why won't you fix it, it shouldn't be that hard.

[jpmigue]

So I type this into Confluence:

| Column 1 | Column 2 |
| -----------| ----------- |
| Row 1,1 | Row 2,1 |

And I get exactly that displayed.

Copy and paste into a vi editor and show special characters and I get this:

| Column 1 | Column 2 |$
$
| -----------| ----------- |$
$
| Row 1,1 | Row 2,1 |$

The $ is line termination, as you can see I have null lines between my markdown. Remove these lines, paste back into Confluence and I get my table.

[Robert Graf]

I'm sorry, but when I

1) create a page

2) Select insert markup and choose "Markdown"

3) Type the text (your from above) into the left window:

| Column1 | Column2 |
| ------- | ------- |
| Row1 | Row2 |

then the right preview windows shows this

| Column1 | Column2 | | ------- | ------- | | Row1 | Row2 |

4) Select insert markup but choose "Confluence wiki"

5) Type in the same text

| Column1 | Column2 |
| ------- | ------- |
| Row1 | Row2 |

and the preview shows a nice confluence table.

From "Markdown" it doesn't work - and this should be done by Atlassian!

[Carl Dichter]

Yes, the Markdown Macro is broken again I need it now, and it is still not working today. 

Also, it isn't very wiki (quick for adding formatted content) to have to use a menu to add a macro to understand Markdown. Being forced to use Markdown at all is because you can't handle pasted tables from other sources.

Is anyone at Confluence listening?

[jpmigue]

When I copy and pasted my table markdown into a vi like editor, I could see that there were null lines between my item lines. I removed these, pasted back into Confluence and my table was created. The issue appears to be how Confluence treats carriage returns.

[Robert Graf]

What are null lines?

Just retested with Confluence 6.15.9 and copied a Markdown example from UltraEdit as Markup inserted with "Markdown" (not Confluence wiki) with LF and CR/LF (ISO-8859-1) and both resulted in one long line (header, data, column separaters).

Í can't follow you how it should work.

[surjya24]

Bump!  Please how hard it is to support tables??????

[Kev]

Bump!

[jenei.david]

Bump!

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[wei wei]

shame

[Dustin William Smith]

I guess this company doesn't listen to all the frustration and requests to have markdown support work for all aspects including tables.

[skilly]

*Bump* again.
Fail!