Friday, October 15, 2010

Format Text as a Table

Here's a simple tool that let's you format text as a table. Simply enter in tab-delimited text (e.g. by copying from Excel), then press "Create Table".

Input:

Header style:
Style:
MySQL: outputs using Ascii characters.
Unicode Art: uses unicode chars that makes it look more like a table.
HTML: outputs a normal html table.

Output:

  • 2/16/13:
    • HTML table's HTML code output added.
  • 1/13/12:
    • Parse table added.
    • Improved code and layout.
  • 1/1/11:
    • Auto Align: number columns become right-aligned, and headers are centered.
    • Spreadsheet option added: adds letters on top and numbers on the side.

21 comments:

  1. Hi, great work, i was searching very long for such a online solution!!!

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  2. cool, thanks, used it for stackoverflow

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  3. What a cool app! A generous soul to boot. thanks!

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  5. Started to use these tables into C# Comments :) Thanks!

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  6. Thanks for This Great Online Tool!
    How can I download the table output?

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  7. Very senseful solution indeed, but how can i copy the code for the table? Thanks!

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  8. @democluj: I just added a way to copy the HTML table's code. Hope that helps!

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  9. Thanks but I think I could have done that with "Inspect Element" feature of Google Chrome (any way much easy now with copy/paste in two clicks. Thanks!). I was wondering if I could somehow copy the Unicode Art table code to make posts with tables on StackOverFlor for example...I've tried to simply just copy it but it's not right.

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  10. Sorry about last post (made me look a liitle stupid)... I just figured it out (for StackOverFlow post). Just put the code copied from here in between pre code here /pre. Put pre and /pre between bracketts.

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  11. Wow. it's really excellent. just pasted a quite odd excel table and worked perfect. Even better if it could the exact wiki/markdown markup but i'll fix that with a text editor. Thanks!!

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  12. Thank for the work! Just what I was looking for!

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  13. This is such a great little tool! Thanks so much :) Definitely saved me some time making my own fancy table

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