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Data tables
Material for MkDocs defines default styles for data tables – an excellent way of rendering tabular data in project documentation. Furthermore, customizations like sortable tables can be achieved with a third-party library and some additional JavaScript.
Configuration
This configuration enables Markdown table support, which should normally be
enabled by default, but to be sure, add the following lines to mkdocs.yml
:
markdown_extensions:
- tables
See additional configuration options:
Usage
Data tables can be used at any position in your project documentation and can contain arbitrary Markdown, including inline code blocks, as well as icons and emojis:
| Method | Description |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------ |
| `GET` | :material-check: Fetch resource |
| `PUT` | :material-check-all: Update resource |
| `DELETE` | :material-close: Delete resource |
Method | Description |
---|---|
GET |
:material-check: Fetch resource |
PUT |
:material-check-all: Update resource |
DELETE |
:material-close: Delete resource |
Column alignment
If you want to align a specific column to the left
, center
or right
, you
can use the regular Markdown syntax placing :
characters at the beginning
and/or end of the divider.
=== "Left"
``` markdown hl_lines="2" title="Data table, columns aligned to left"
| Method | Description |
| :---------- | :----------------------------------- |
| `GET` | :material-check: Fetch resource |
| `PUT` | :material-check-all: Update resource |
| `DELETE` | :material-close: Delete resource |
```
<div class="result" markdown>
| Method | Description |
| :---------- | :----------------------------------- |
| `GET` | :material-check: Fetch resource |
| `PUT` | :material-check-all: Update resource |
| `DELETE` | :material-close: Delete resource |
</div>
=== "Center"
``` markdown hl_lines="2" title="Data table, columns centered"
| Method | Description |
| :---------: | :----------------------------------: |
| `GET` | :material-check: Fetch resource |
| `PUT` | :material-check-all: Update resource |
| `DELETE` | :material-close: Delete resource |
```
<div class="result" markdown>
| Method | Description |
| :---------: | :----------------------------------: |
| `GET` | :material-check: Fetch resource |
| `PUT` | :material-check-all: Update resource |
| `DELETE` | :material-close: Delete resource |
</div>
=== "Right"
``` markdown hl_lines="2" title="Data table, columns aligned to right"
| Method | Description |
| ----------: | -----------------------------------: |
| `GET` | :material-check: Fetch resource |
| `PUT` | :material-check-all: Update resource |
| `DELETE` | :material-close: Delete resource |
```
<div class="result" markdown>
| Method | Description |
| ----------: | -----------------------------------: |
| `GET` | :material-check: Fetch resource |
| `PUT` | :material-check-all: Update resource |
| `DELETE` | :material-close: Delete resource |
</div>
Customization
Sortable tables
If you want to make data tables sortable, you can add tablesort, which is natively integrated with Material for MkDocs and will also work with instant loading via additional JavaScript:
=== ":octicons-file-code-16: docs/javascripts/tablesort.js"
``` js
document$.subscribe(function() {
var tables = document.querySelectorAll("article table:not([class])")
tables.forEach(function(table) {
new Tablesort(table)
})
})
```
=== ":octicons-file-code-16: mkdocs.yml"
``` yaml
extra_javascript:
- https://unpkg.com/tablesort@5.3.0/dist/tablesort.min.js
- javascripts/tablesort.js
```
After applying the customization, data tables can be sorted by clicking on a column:
| Method | Description |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------ |
| `GET` | :material-check: Fetch resource |
| `PUT` | :material-check-all: Update resource |
| `DELETE` | :material-close: Delete resource |
Method | Description |
---|---|
GET |
:material-check: Fetch resource |
PUT |
:material-check-all: Update resource |
DELETE |
:material-close: Delete resource |
Note that tablesort provides alternative comparison implementations like numbers, filesizes, dates and month names. See the [tablesort documentation] tablesort for more information.