Please consider support for multi-row Headers for Tables about remark HOT 2 CLOSED

Welcome @wnm3! 👋
Thanks for sharing your idea!

TL;DR

Our table implementation strictly follows GitHub Flavored Markdown (gfm), diverging from the standard, even as an option is a non-goal for the project.
This could be filed with the gfm team at https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm or https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions, and once approved and merged into the GFM standard, we will match the standard.

Alternatively you could create your own parser extension to create the new table type, the process is rather involved, and it is not necessarily advisable to create yet another markdown favor. But it is an option. https://github.com/micromark/micromark#extending-markdown

Either of the above you could do yourself, or you could explore sponsoring a remark maintainer to do so on your behalf. I believe both @wooorm and @remcohaszing have done some consulting in the past.

Context:

Remark is a wrapper around lower level utilities like https://github.com/micromark/micromark (CommonMark implementation), https://github.com/micromark/micromark-extension-gfm (GFM implementation), and https://github.com/micromark/micromark-extension-mdx (MDX implementation).
Designed to make it easier to work with the abstract syntax tree (more on that here: https://unifiedjs.com/learn/).

CommonMark (https://spec.commonmark.org/), GitHub flavored Markdown (https://github.github.com/gfm/), and MDX (https://github.com/mdx-js/specification) each follow a spec/standard.
These existing plugins will not add features from outside their respective standards.

That said, you and others are welcome to looking into creating your own extension if wanted (guide: https://github.com/micromark/micromark#extending-markdown).
Though know that creating yet another markdown flavor is both a complex endeavor technically, and would require training authors on the new standard.

Another possibility is reaching out to the standards groups themselves with the idea, and adding a feature to the standard. CommonMark has a standards discussion forum (https://talk.commonmark.org/), GitHub responses both to issues and discussions (https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm and https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions), and MDX has a discussion forum (https://github.com/orgs/mdx-js/discussions)

Your particular request is around tables, which is a part of the GFM standard.

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