Title: Tables

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It is possible to add tables to text in Markdown. A simple table looks like this:

~~~
First header | Second header
-------------| -------------
Cell content | Cell content
Cell content | Cell content
~~~

> First header | Second header
> -------------| -------------
> Cell content | Cell content
> Cell content | Cell content

The first line contains table headers. The second one are lines (`----`) that separate the headers from the table rows. The columns are separated with a vertical bar `|`.

Optionally, you may also add the vertical bars before and after each table line:

~~~
| First header | Second header |
|--------------| --------------|
| Cell content | Cell content  |
| Cell content | Cell content  |
~~~

The only content available in table cells are the inline elements, such as emphasis, links, images and code spans.

Align to left or right side
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In tables it is possible to specify content alignment for each column. It is done by using colon `:` on the left, right or both sides of lines separating headers and content in columns. In the below example we optically aligned text in rows but it is not necessary.

~~~
| Header   | Header  | Header   | Header   |
| -------- |:------- | --------:|:--------:|
| Default  | To left | To right |    And   |
| position | side    |     side | centered |
~~~

> | Header   | Header  | Header   | Header   |
> | -------- |:------- | --------:|:--------:|
> | Default  | To left | To right |    And   |
> | position | side    |     side | centered |

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> [information]
> Default CSS of the output (**xhtml** and **xhtml_single**) automatically makes cells centered.