Why are my markdown tables not working?

[Paul Smith]

Markdown tables are included in the syntax guide. However they do not appear to work with README.md files.

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[Paul Smith · Accepted solution]

The problem turned out to be with prettier trying to format the table incorrectly. In order for the table to display correctly in Bitbucket, all of the borders must be aligned perfectly.

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[Theodora Boudale]

Hi Paul and welcome to the community.

You need to remove the triple backticks (unless they are part of code blocks before and after the table) and also leave a new line between HEADER and the table.

The following should work:

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| one | two | three |

Kind regards,
Theodora

[Paul Smith]

The backticks were not in my actual MD file. Added them to try and format my question, but they did not work as expected on this forum.

[Eugenio Miró]

I think the correct syntax is to have at least a space between the pipe character and the hyphens, That's how it's shown in the Markdown Syntax Guide, but it still doesn't work for me.