# Tables in pure Markdown

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/tables-in-pure-markdown/81>\
**Category:** Extensions\
**Created:** [September 3, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/tables-in-pure-markdown/81 "2014-09-03T20:48:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/tables-in-pure-markdown/81/12 "2014-09-03T23:36:01Z")

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By “core markdown,” I meant simply the sorts of elements that are  
supported in John Gruber’s original markdown: block quotes, lists,  
etc. Tables and footnotes are not among them. I would be happy to  
see markdown grow organically to have a table syntax (though I don’t  
particularly like “pipe tables” – see pandoc for some nicer plain  
text table formats). But it would be better to discuss that after  
settling current core features.

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