• JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Prettier doesn’t make my markdown table prettier tho. This is what i did

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    Given the following markdown table

    | input | output l
    | -- | -- |
    | 2.6 | 3 |
    | 2.5 | 2 |
    | 2.4 | 2 |
    | 1.6 | 2 |
    | 1.5 | 2 |
    | 1.4 | 1 |
    

    Align the vertical bar. Align number to the left

    output

    Here’s the table with the vertical bars aligned and numbers left-aligned:

    | input | output l |
    |-------|----------|
    | 2.6   | 3        |
    | 2.5   | 2        |
    | 2.4   | 2        |
    | 1.6   | 2        |
    | 1.5   | 2        |
    | 1.4   | 1        |
    

    Each column has been padded so that the vertical bars line up consistently, and the numbers are aligned to the left as requested.

    • jdeath@lemm.ee
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      10 hours ago

      yeah, you formatted a markdown table. now you’re just repeating yourself. Prettier handles that just fine. I have the Prettier VSCode extension and set it as default formatter on save and this gets done automatically for me.

      before:

      after:

      Didn’t require a small lake of water and a gigawatt of electricity to compute… it even works offline!