Tables
Tables edit like the rest of the document — click into a cell and type — with column widths that follow the content and alignment you set with standard Markdown table syntax. Table editing is the same in the desktop app and the cloud workspace.
Creating a table
Type the standard Markdown table syntax — a header row, a separator row of dashes, then your data rows — and it renders as an editable table as soon as you finish the separator row.
Editing
Click into any cell to place your cursor there; Tab and Shift+Tab move between cells. Column
alignment (left, center, right) is read from the colons in the header separator row (:---,
:---:, ---:) and kept on save.
What a cell can hold
Beyond plain text, a cell can contain a list, a heading, a blockquote, a code block, several paragraphs, or a hard line break. A task list inside a cell keeps its checkboxes.
Wide tables
A table that's wider than the document can grow up to 1.25× its column widths before Context Raven adds a horizontal scrollbar to the table itself, so the rest of the page doesn't have to scroll sideways. On a large screen it can use the whole width of the document area, minus the normal margin.
Export
Tables export fully to both PDF and Word, keeping alignment, column widths, and text wrapping. See Export.
Limits
- Column widths are derived from the content in each column; there's no manual column-resize control.
- Some content can't live inside a table cell: a Mermaid diagram, a raw HTML block, an HTML
comment, display math (
$$…$$) or a footnote entry. You can drop one into a cell, but a cell is a single line and those are not, so when the note is saved the block is moved to just below the table and the cell is left empty. The block's own text is kept exactly as you wrote it. See Diagrams, math and footnotes for where those belong instead.