Convert a table into a markdown compatible table about node-html-to-text HOT 7 CLOSED

Thank you, I got it working :) The issue was the HTML i'm trying to parse have a table nested inside another table...
https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2024/934#idf61add5b-0d98-4297-8677-1e4565b7e7cb
The table here. So it would just wrap one border around it and extract the html directly. But got it working :)
Love the Package!

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I have html-to-markdown converter in the works.
Unfortunately, it's not production-ready yet, and only good on well-formed input.
A lot of unfortunate things aligned, preventing me from investing more time into it currently.
I intend to complete it, but I don't have ETA.
With arbitrary text output we can freehand certain things and avoid some corner cases. Markdown requires more attention.

You can look at my implementation of markdown table formatter there:

Note that it also uses its own table printer.

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Thanks for quick response! I have been using this and it seems to output the table structured as a table if i check the output. But if i apply a markdown renderer like React Markdown it does not render it as a table. It just render it like normal lines with a \n at the end of each row in the table

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I don't understand what you mean.

html-to-text has its own dataTable formatter that is not compatible with markdown.

html-to-markdown will be a separate package with its own set of formatters.
They may have similar names, so pay attention which package they are in.

Formatters API is the same, but I don't ship markdown formatters in any published package yet.
The code in the repository is work in progress.

You can bring any existing formatter as a custom formatter by copying the code, but data tables have most complex formatters and require more effort and understanding to do so.
(And pay closer attention to the license as well, when copying code instead of importing. MIT still requires attribution.)

In case you're actually using html-to-md from the repository and having issues with produced markdown - that's a separate story. I've no idea what markdown flavor React Markdown supports, whether I already support it through configuration, or whether there are other issues.
That's why I'm not publishing it in current state - I don't want to deal with a lot of problems that people will report before I implement a solid solution for them.

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Hey sorry for bad response before. It does make it into a table that is nice, but is it possible to also make it do all the | -- | signs so a table will render using a markdown rendered like reactmarkdown ? :)

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Yes.
But that requires some understanding.
I have the code you might be able to use for rendering markdown tables - I linked it before.
But you have to understand what parts you need to copy into your code and wire in the options.

I don't want to spoonfeed because this is rather advanced use and will be obsolete in the future.

I simply can't focus on the project currently, to complete it in the intended form to have a simpler solution for you.

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Yeah, can use more specific selectors to format tables differently.

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