Create a table without a header in Markdown

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Is it possible to create a table without a header in Markdown   The HTML would look like this    lt table gt   lt tr gt       lt td gt Key 1 lt  td gt       lt td gt Value 1 lt  td gt   lt  tr gt   lt tr gt       lt td gt Key 2 lt  td gt       lt td gt Value 2 lt  td gt   lt  tr gt   lt  table gt

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Most Markdown parsers don t support tables without headers  That means the separation line for headers is mandatory   Parsers that do not support tables without headers   multimarkdown Maruku  A popular implementation in Ruby byword   All tables must begin with one or more rows of headers  PHP Markdown Extra  second line contains a mandatory separator line between the headers and the content  RDiscount Uses PHP Markdown Extra syntax  GitHub Flavoured Markdown Parsedown  A parser in PHP  used e g  in Laravel emails    Parsers that do support tables without headers    Kramdown  A parser in Ruby Text  MultiMarkdown  Perl CPAN module  MultiMarkdown  Windows application  ParseDown Extra  A parser in PHP  Pandoc  A document converter for the command line written in Haskell  supports header-less tables via its simple tables and multiline tables extensions  Flexmark  A parser in Java    CSS solution  If you re able to change the CSS of the HTML output you can however leverage the  empty pseudo class to hide an empty header and make it look like there is no header at all

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The following works well for me in GitHub  The first row is no longer bolded as it is not a header    lt table align  center  gt       lt tr gt           lt td align  center  gt  lt img src  docs img1 png raw true  alt  some text  gt  lt  td gt           lt td align  center  gt Some other text lt  td gt           lt td align  center  gt More text lt  td gt       lt  tr gt       lt tr gt           lt td align  center  gt  lt img src  docs img2 png raw true  alt  some text  gt  lt  td gt           lt td align  center  gt Some other text 2 lt  td gt           lt td align  center  gt More text 2 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt   lt  table gt    Check a sample HTML table without a header here

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thamme-gowda s solution works for images too                                                                                       ----------------------------------------------------------------------------         https   gravatar com avatar 4cc702785290b4934c531c56f6061e5e  Tonejito       You can check this out on a gist I made for that  Here is a render of the table hack on GitHub and GitLab

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You may be able to hide a heading if you can add the following CSS    lt style gt      th           display  none         lt  style gt    This is a bit heavy-handed and doesn   t distinguish between tables  but it may do for a simple task

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Omitting the header above the divider produces a headerless table in at least Perl Text  MultiMarkdown and in FletcherPenney MultiMarkdown   ------------- --------     Name        John Doe     Position    CEO         See PHP Markdown feature request    Empty headers in PHP Parsedown produce tables with empty headers that are usually invisible  depending on your CSS  and so look like headerless tables                  ----- -----   Foo   37      Bar   101

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cat foo md Key 1   Value 1 Key 2   Value 2     kramdown foo md  lt table gt     lt tbody gt       lt tr gt         lt td gt Key 1 lt  td gt         lt td gt Value 1 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt       lt tr gt         lt td gt Key 2 lt  td gt         lt td gt Value 2 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt     lt  tbody gt   lt  table gt

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I use  lt span gt  in the first column header     lt span gt    ---          --- Value      Value Value      Value   It creates an empty header with border  but with 1 2 the size

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If you don t mind wasting a line by leaving it empty  consider the following hack  it is a hack  and use this only if you don t like adding any additional plugins             - - -     Bold Key    Value1     Normal Key   Value2     To view how the above one could look  copy the above and visit https   stackedit io editor  It worked with GitLab GitHub s Markdown implementations

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Universal Solution  Many of the suggestions unfortunately do not work for all Markdown viewers editors  for instance  the popular Markdown Viewer Chrome extension  but they do work with iA Writer   What does seem to work across both of these popular programs  and might work for your particular application  is to use HTML comment blocks    lt  -- -- gt         lt  -- -- gt        lt  -- -- gt        ------------- -------------    Foo           Bar             Like some of the earlier suggestions stated  this does add an empty header row in your Markdown viewer editor  In iA Writer  it s aesthetically small enough that it doesn t get in my way too much

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I got this working with Bitbucket s Markdown by using a empty link            ------ ------ Row 1   row 2

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At least for the GitHub Flavoured Markdown  you can give the illusion by making all the non-header row entries bold with the regular    or    formatting    Regular   text   in header   turns bold    - - - -      So       bold       all       table entries         and       it looks       like a        headerless table

[markdown] Create a table without a header in Markdown

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