Tables

GFM (GitHub Flavored Markdown) pipe tables are rendered using jspdf-autotable.

Syntax

| Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Cell 1   | Cell 2   | Cell 3   |
| Cell 4   | Cell 5   | Cell 6   |

How It Renders

• Headers are rendered with bold styling
• Table is automatically sized to fit within page.maxContentWidth
• Column alignment is taken from the delimiter row (see below)
• Cell content renders as plain text — inline markup is read and its markers removed, but the styling itself is not applied (see Cell content)
• Tables that exceed the page height trigger automatic page breaks

Column Alignment

Alignment markers in the delimiter row are applied to the whole column, header included.

| Left | Center | Right |
|:-----|:------:|------:|
| a    | b      | c     |

Delimiter	Alignment
:---	Left
:---:	Center
---:	Right
---	Default (left)

An explicit columnStyles entry in the table option overrides the alignment parsed from the Markdown.

Cell Content

Cells render as plain text. Inline markup inside a cell is parsed and its markers are stripped, so **bold** renders as bold rather than showing the asterisks — but the emphasis itself is not applied, and a link renders as its label without becoming clickable.

This is a limitation of drawing cells through jspdf-autotable, which has no concept of mixed inline runs within a cell. Full inline styling inside cells is planned.

Customizing Table Styles

Pass jspdf-autotable options through the table option:

const options = {
  // ...other options
  table: {
    theme: 'grid',              // 'striped' | 'grid' | 'plain'
    headStyles: {
      fillColor: [99, 102, 241],
      textColor: 255,
      fontStyle: 'bold',
    },
    bodyStyles: {
      fontSize: 10,
    },
    alternateRowStyles: {
      fillColor: [245, 245, 250],
    },
    margin: { left: 10, right: 10 },
  },
}

Relevant Options

Option	Effect
table	Full UserOptions from jspdf-autotable — controls theme, colors, fonts, margins
page.maxContentWidth	Maximum table width
spacing.afterTable	Spacing added below the table

Try It

Interactive

Try this in the Playground — paste the markdown above and click Generate PDF.