# Does anyone have any examples of using Markdown in a Template Column **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [July 6, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/does-anyone-have-any-examples-of-using-markdown-in-a-template-column/44008 "2022-07-06T23:37:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MattLB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mattlb/32/41284_2.png) [@MattLB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattLB)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/does-anyone-have-any-examples-of-using-markdown-in-a-template-column/44008/1 "2022-07-06T23:37:00Z")
TIA - Trying to see how markdown handles a table and not having any luck with a readable/usable table. This is the example from [Markdown table: How to Create a Great Looking Table - Markdown Land](https://markdown.land/markdown-table). I pasted this: | Item | Price | # In stock | | --- | --- | --- | | Juicy Apples | 1.99 | _7_ | | Bananas | **1.89** | 5234 | into an RT component expecting something that looks like this: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/5/9/597e4f9717ad6f14784f306cc558e1e77864721f.png) ---
**Author:** ![MattLB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mattlb/32/41284_2.png) [@MattLB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattLB)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/does-anyone-have-any-examples-of-using-markdown-in-a-template-column/44008/2 "2022-07-06T23:39:13Z")
I plugged this into an RT component: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/c/b/cba6f33ffc7bc5d3bc6bc7d00f08b1001b53ab8d.png) And got this: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/c/6/c6f79f8b5ff7be74f346f42d0ca223f72ff55723.png) Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/does-anyone-have-any-examples-of-using-markdown-in-a-template-column/44008/3 "2022-07-06T23:55:50Z")
Yep, that’s exactly the problem I had with markdown tables in glide. It doesn’t render them very well. If it spanned the entire width of the screen it wouldn’t be so bad, but it smashes everything together, and no amount of extra empty characters could make it look nice in my case. I have a lot of variable text lengths, so I need my cells to float and adapt to fill the screen appropriately. You can try padding with empty characters, but it won’t be a great result. > [@Markup table](https://community.glideapps.com/t/markup-table/43986/2): > > I’ve seen other markdown engines do a better job of rendering the table, but when I dabbled with it a few years ago, I could never get it to look satisfactory in glide. All the data was smashed together and didn’t fill the width of the screen. I also couldn’t modify the cell margins and padding, and couldn’t double stack two table rows within a single table row. > **[Empty Characters, Whitespaces & Blank Unicode Characters](https://www.emptycharacter.com/)** > > Empty Characters, Whitespaces & Blank Unicode Characters ---
**Author:** ![MattLB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mattlb/32/41284_2.png) [@MattLB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattLB)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/does-anyone-have-any-examples-of-using-markdown-in-a-template-column/44008/4 "2022-07-07T00:03:42Z")
Hysterical! Cause whoever they outsource the [community.glideapps.com](http://community.glideapps.com) to implemented “markdown tables” correctly cause the table came out looking fine when I typed in the markdown table. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/6/4/6430f0a7ffe241640b992d6201f43ac1001a5cda.png) But when I typed the same text into an RT component it looked like this in Glide: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/9/9/9944ed85469944e9b98e78c0c7feab4d9b4a76e3.png) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/does-anyone-have-any-examples-of-using-markdown-in-a-template-column/44008/5 "2022-07-07T00:15:50Z")
Yeah, I’ve noticed that other places as well. There’s several different markdown engines out there. I really don’t know if it’s the engine that glide uses, or the way it integrated into the glide architecture, or if it’s a homegrown solution, but every engine has it’s own subtle nuances when rendering markdown into html. This forum is based on [https://www.discourse.org/](https://www.discourse.org/) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 12:57am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/does-anyone-have-any-examples-of-using-markdown-in-a-template-column/44008/6 "2022-07-07T00:57:06Z")
Welcome to 1995 😉