Mdast utility that serializes gridtables to mdast and/or hast.
This package contains extensions that add support for the grid table syntax
to mdast-util-from-markdown
and mdast-util-to-markdown
.
These tools are all rather low-level.
In most cases, you’d want to use [@adobe/remark-gridtables
][remark-gridtables] with remark instead.
When working with mdast-util-from-markdown
, you must combine this package with
@adobe/micromark-extension-gridtables
.
This utility does not handle how markdown is turned to HTML.
That’s done by mdast-util-to-hast
.
This package is ESM only. In Node.js (version 12.20+, 14.14+, or 16.0+), install with npm:
npm install @adobe/mdast-util-gridtables
Note: due to the architecture of the micromark parser, it is not possible to parse the cell contents continuously. Furthermore, the to-markdown utility doesn't make its configuration available to extensions, so we need to pass the configuration manually into the gridtables extension.
import fs from 'node:fs/promises';
import { fromMarkdown } from 'mdast-util-from-markdown';
import { toMarkdown } from 'mdast-util-to-markdown';
import { gridTables } from '@adobe/micromark-extension-gridtables'
import {
gridTablesToMarkdown,
gridTablesFromMarkdown,
mdast2hastGridTablesHandler,
TYPE_TABLE,
} from '@adobe/mdast-util-gridtables';
const doc = await fs.readFile('example.md')
// convert markdown to mdast
const options = {
extensions: [gridTables],
mdastExtensions: [],
};
options.mdastExtensions.push(gridTablesFromMarkdown(options));
const tree = fromMarkdown(sourceMarkdown, options);
// convert mdast to md
const outputMarkdown = toMarkdown(tree, {extensions: [gridTablesToMarkdown()]})
// convert mdast to hast
const hast = mdast2hast(mdast, {
handlers: {
[TYPE_TABLE]: mdast2hastGridTablesHandler(),
},
});
Also see a working example.
GridTables look like this:
+-------------------+------+
| Table Headings | Here |
+--------+----------+------+
| Sub | Headings | Too |
+========+=================+
| cell | column spanning |
| spans +---------:+------+
| rows | normal | cell |
+---v----+:---------------:+
| | cells can be |
| | *formatted* |
| | **paragraphs** |
| | ``` |
| multi | and contain |
| line | blocks |
| cells | ``` |
+========+=========<+======+
| footer | cells | |
+--------+----------+------+
+-
followed by some -
or +
and finished by -+
.=
as grid line.|
) delimiters-
) delimiters:
or ><
v
^
x
)=
).|
)
need to exactly match with the column markers (+
) in the row delimiters, if the cell content
contains |
, otherwise the correct layout of the table can't be guaranteed.The table layout tries to keep the table within a certain width (default 120). For example, if the table has 3 columns, each column will be max 40 characters wide. If all text in a column is smaller, it will shrink the columns. However, cells have a minimum width (default 10) when text needs to be broken. If the cell contents need more space, e.g. with a nested table or code block, it will grow accordingly.
Horizontal align is indicated by placing markers at the grid line above the cell:
Justify Center Left Right
+>-----<+ +:-----:+ +:------+ +------:+
| A b C | | ABC | | ABC | | ABC |
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+
Vertical align is indicated by placing markers at the center of the grid line above the cell:
Top Middle Bottom
+---^---+ +---x---+ +---v---+
| Larum | | | | |
| Ipsum | | Larum | | |
| | | Ipsum | | Larum |
| | | | | Ipsum |
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+
gridTable := gridLine cellLine+ gridLine;
gridLine := gridCell+ "+";
cellLine := ( gridCell | cellContent )+ ( "+" | "|" );
gridCell := "+" alignMarkerStart? ("-" | "=")+ vAlignMarker? ("-" | "=")* alignMarkerEnd?;
cellContent := ( "+" | "|" ) " " content " " ;
alignMarkerStart := ":" | ">";
alignMarkerEnd := ":" | "<";
vAlignMarker := "^" | "v" | "x"
The following interfaces are added to mdast by this utility.
GridTable
interface GridTable <: Parent {
type: "gridTable"
children: [GridTableHeader|GridTableBody|GridTableFooter]
}
GridTableHeader
interface GridTableHeader <: Parent {
type: "gtHead"
children: [GridTableRow]
}
GridTableBody
interface GridTableBody <: Parent {
type: "gtBody"
children: [GridTableRow]
}
GridTableFoot
interface GridTableFooter <: Parent {
type: "gtFoot"
children: [GridTableRow]
}
GridTableRow
interface GridTableRow <: Parent {
type: "gtRow"
children: [GridTableCell]
}
GridTableCell
interface GridTableCell <: Parent {
type: "gtCell"
colSpan: number >= 1
rowSpan: number >= 1
align: alignType
valign: valignType
children: [MdastContent]
}
GridTableCell (Parent) represents a header cell in a GridTable, if its parent is a [gridTableHead][term-head], or a data cell otherwise.
GridTableCell can be used where gridTableRow content is expected. Its content model is mdast content, allowing full mdast documents.
alignType
enum alignType {
"left" | "right" | "center" | "justify" | null
}
valignType
enum alignType {
"top" | "bottom" | "middle" | null
}