[Discussion] Handling tables in Markdown

Proposal

The MR !86353 (merged) allows the rendering of tables from JSON code.

This addition means that there are 3 ways of creating tables in Markdown:

1. Markdown tables
2. HTML tables
3. JSON tables in a code block

Table feature matrix

	Alignment	Merge cells	Sorting	Filtering
Markdown	✅	-	-	-
HTML	-	✅	-	-
JSON	-	-	✅	✅

Table creation

Source

Markdown	HTML	JSON

Visual editing

Markdown	HTML	JSON
	n/a

Table display

At the moment we don’t distinguish the difference between the two approaches of tables when displaying the table. The difference is only in source. With JSON table, we would continue this approach for display.

Markdown vs HTML	Markdown vs HTML(merge cells)

Table interactivity

With the Markdown and HTML the end result is a static table. With JSON tables we are introducing client side interaction. With this we would need to add visual signifiers to show the affordance that you can click the tables.