[markdown] Create a table without a header in Markdown

Is it possible to create a table without a header in Markdown?

The HTML would look like this:

<table>
<tr>
    <td>Key 1</td>
    <td>Value 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>Key 2</td>
    <td>Value 2</td>
</tr>
</table>

@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:

The following works well for me in GitHub. The first row is no longer bolded as it is not a header:

<table align="center">
    <tr>
        <td align="center"><img src="docs/img1.png?raw=true" alt="some text"></td>
        <td align="center">Some other text</td>
        <td align="center">More text</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td align="center"><img src="docs/img2.png?raw=true" alt="some text"></td>
        <td align="center">Some other text 2</td>
        <td align="center">More text 2</td>
    </tr>
</table>

Check a sample HTML table without a header here.

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"__ |

$ cat foo.md
Key 1 | Value 1
Key 2 | Value 2

$ kramdown foo.md
<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Key 1</td>
      <td>Value 1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Key 2</td>
      <td>Value 2</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

I got this working with Bitbucket's Markdown by using a empty link:

[]()  | 
------|------
Row 1 | row 2

You may be able to hide a heading if you can add the following CSS:

<style>
    th {
        display: none;
    }
</style>

This is a bit heavy-handed and doesn’t distinguish between tables, but it may do for a simple task.

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  |

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.

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 ('<!-- -->'):

| <!-- -->    | <!-- -->    |
|-------------|-------------|
| 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.

I use <span> in the first column header:

 <span> |
---     |    ---
Value   |  Value
Value   |  Value

It creates an empty header with border, but with 1/2 the size.