Tables

A table is written as Markdown draws it: a row per line, cells between pipes, and a rule under the header that leans each column left, centre or right and can make it wider.

Vaccine	Given	Due again
Six-in-one	march	12 months
Rabies	march	12 months
Worming	august	3 months

| Vaccine | Given | Due again |
| :--- | :---: | ---: |
| Six-in-one | march | 12 months |

Where the column width lives

In how long the rule under the header is drawn. Markdown has nowhere to keep a column width, so Tisty writes it as the length of that column's dashes and reads it back the same way — a wider column, a longer rule. Every other Markdown reader ignores how many dashes there are and draws a plain table.

| Short | A wider column |
| :--- | :---------------------------------------- |

• Four dashes or more set the width, ten pixels a dash.
• Three dashes leave the width to the page, so a table written anywhere else looks as it always did.