As a user of Trello, I'd like to be able to enter a table with columns and rows into the card's description, whether using a editor button, markdown, HTML, or custom tags. (i.e.) Table Header Row1, Column1 Row1, Column2 Row2, Column1 Row2, Column2 etc... Is there something like this already planned or existing?

It's one of those I found and tried. Doesn't work.

Yes @SabreRunner it still works. The forum admins forbid me to "advertise" it here but you can find the links in this thread somewhere or search for "Trello Markdown Descriptions"

This forum is even more fucked up than trello. The UI is horrible. Your link does jump me to a thread about adding tables. The browser extension mentioned there does not exist anymore.

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Adding a Table inside Trello Card Description

Sean Hoar

As a user of Trello, I'd like to be able to enter a table with columns and rows into the card's description, whether using a editor button, markdown, HTML, or custom tags.

(i.e.)

<table border="1" >
<th>
<td><strong>Table Header</strong></td>
</th>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Row1, Column1</td><td>Row1, Column2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row2, Column1</td><td>Row2, Column2</td>
</tr>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

etc... Is there something like this already planned or existing?

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Torben_trello

Right now, table support/formatting isn’t something that is on our short term roadmap in Trello. I'll be happy to register your interest in this with our team.

You can always attach the spreadsheet directly as an attachment to a Trello card, in the meantime. Documents that are attached with Google Drive and OneDrive can be edited and saved in their respective applications and do not need to be downloaded, saved, and reattached to your card: http://help.trello.com/article/769-adding-attachments-to-cards

Chris Comfort

While not a perfect solution to the absence of table support, I found that if I generate a table using Markdown, and then wrap the table as a code block I get a reasonable representation (though, in my case it's a small table so not sure how this would look with a larger data set).

```
| File Type | Size (GB) |
|-----------|-----------|
| jpg, jpeg | 45.11 |
| png | 10.58 |
| pdf | 1.29 |
| sql | 0.95 |
| mp4 | 0.54 |
| gif | 0.43 |
| css | 0.38 |
| mov | 0.22 |
| mp3 | 0.10 |
| php | 0.04 |
```

Wessel de Vries

Yes, you can use table markdown in Trello (like in one of the answers above) if you download the Trello Table Markdown Chrome extension.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pgifaolbebmlmfafkgngfjchfpcpndig

Or better yet: download the full featured Trello Cards Optimizer version:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trello-cards-optimizer/ipbjjbpopodbnjbjnneakhcppdocpelg

Both are free.

Katrin Anger

@Wessel de Vries

Thank you! Looks great!

Ray_n65315

I'll second that feature request!

user3822

+1 for Tables, it's very useful! I'm surprised you guys don't have it by now.

WeirdBeardDev

I hadn't heard of TCO until now. I use Plus for Trello all the time. From a brief look at the TCO site it looks like it works with Plus for Trello. Time to take a look and see what it provides.

unknown

If it isn't possible to add markdown support for Tables would it be possible to embed a table that is created in an attached spreadsheet file? Or possibly make a spreadsheet file tab the Card Cover?

Hirad

Is there anything like this for the Desktop or the Mobile App?

kenneth-loh

Unfortunately, converting from markdowns to display-friendly format, we need a renderer to interpret the markdown symbols to their display form. We need Trello to implement that capability.

Esteban López Betancourt

+1 for tables!!!!

Bharath Kumar Ballipongala Subramanyam

+1 for tables !!!!

mikeedwards83

Please add this feature. Tables are standard in every other markdown parser and it is really frustrating not being able to represent basic tabula data in a ticket.

Sandhya S_5w9wr3

+1 for tables

Miquel Ferrer Llompart_4hwdm9

+1 for tables

Vanessa_aplgz3

+1 for tables!

Michael Keane_jii22m

C'mon... please implement some tables without having to have to resort to plugins and/or extensions.

JIMz_1t953w

+1 for tables ! please just don't forget the basics !!

Rodrigo Nóbrega Rocha Xavier

One way that's already available, to show something similar to a table, is to use a code block (as defined here).

You can use a text editor with a monospaced font (like Notepad or Notepad++, on Windows) and include the spaces to align the data with the collumns. Or, if it's a big content you're copying from somewhere else, you can paste in one of these convenient web sites that convert tables into text in the intended format:

https://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/

https://www.tablesgenerator.com/text_tables

https://tableconvert.com/

Then, copy to Trello with three backticks (```) above and below.

For example, with the text below:

Example of table:

```
ID MONTH OTHER_ID FLAG
6344 201601 16 0
6429 201601 16 1
12046 201612 208 0
14319 201612 208 0
```

The result will be like this:

Emirhan Bektas

+1 for tables!!!

Levina Tabita

+1 for tables!

Andrew Tieszen

+ 1 for tables. They're a feature of the Markdown format that you claim to fully support. Either add them or don't claim to.

+1 for tables!

+1 for tables!

Thank you so much!!

+1 Please add markdown tables on your Trello roadmap table!

Graham Mitchell

+1 for tables

pbilling

Tables! Tables! Tables!

th_richter_uksh_de

Mark Marsh

Yeah, tables - native tables not a plugin!

Cristian Banica

Amazing. Thank you so much! Just what I was looking for, not really nice that we have to use a workaround, but nevertheless a good option for a table-like view.

East Coast Farming

It's 2022 and we still don't have the table on Trello.

Emirhan Bektas

@Sean Hoar btw. imo you wrote the perfect user story for this.

mollerjorge

I created a personal browser extension that helps me with this.

It allows me to create complex tables with:

filter functionality (global and per column).
Sorting.
Support for removing or adding columns and rows from UI.
Pagination in case you want to show only X amount of rows per page.

If anyone is interested I can publish it to the different browser stores so that you can use it, let me know.

Screen Shot 2023-01-12 at 10.46.03.png

Graham Mitchell_jxnyoi

This looks good. Great work @mollerjorge . I'd be up for using this. I mainly use Firefox and Safari on Mac.

mollerjorge

Thanks Graham! more than happy to deploy it to all browser stores if people find it useful.

hidehide55

This is a great plugin. I would like to use it when it is released.
I was having trouble with "Trello Cards Optimizer" because it stopped working.
I usually use Google chrome.

Chris Ellerby

Get your act together and start adding these features Atlassian! It's been years, and you ignore EVERY feature request we make.

+1 for tables

+1 for tables

+1 for tables

It's been 6 years to the day today since the OP request for this feature. It should be easy to implement, just replace the markdown renderer they use to render the card description. But, I guess, they have other prios.

Philipp Kursawe

6 years now since the initial OP request. A shame.

Ariel Rey

+100 for tables!

Natasa Sebek

+1000 for tables, feature request submitted, please vote https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TRELLO-357

Aleks_9cj0rf

Hey everyone, please take a look at "Tables & Spreadsheets" power-up https://trello.com/power-ups/65c7808c749e34145008f9b4

I'm on the development team and would love to share your feedback with the team!

Philipp Kursawe

While it's a nice addon, it's not markdown. One has to wonder how atlassian seems to be able to support all those addons in cards but can't get an easy feature like proper markdown done.

Philipp Kursawe

@Chris Comfort without any hackery in my new browser extensions it would render like this:

Screenshot 2025-10-02 at 22.05.54.png

SabreRunner

It is cool but it's not markdown and it costs too much just to have a couple of simple tables. Be better if they just did markdown properly.

SabreRunner

@Philipp Kursawe What browser extension? Does it still work?

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