Markdown grid table extension

A Python-Markdown extension to render grid tables.

Example:

+-------------------+------------------+----------------+
| Header 1          | Header 2         | Header 3       |
+===================+==================+================+
| Cells can span multiple columns      | Cells can span |
+--------------------------------------+ multiple rows  |
| Text in cells *can be* **formatted** |                |
|                                      |                |
| > and can contain arbitrary          |                |
| > multi-line blocks                  |                |
+--------------------------------------+----------------+

Installation

pip install markdown-grids

Usage

import markdown
text = ...  # your Markdown source
html = markdown.markdown(text, extensions='grids')

To use with MkDocs, add the following to mkdocs.yml:

markdown_extensions:
  - grids

Because whitespace in a grid table is structural, it is not possible to indicate a newline in a cell with two spaces at the end of the line. Two possible solutions to this are:

• The New-Line-to-Break extension
• The Markdown line block extension

Licence

markdown-grids is distributed under the terms of the MIT licence.