Aligning text to top left in a table

[MelB507]

Helllooo.
I'm a newbie using GitHub. Is it possible to align text to the top left of a cell in a table? I know how to align left, right & center, just not to the top of the cell.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Ta
Mel

[Majid-J]

Hey!
I believe you are refering to Markdown tables? In that case you can only left-align, center or right-align the content of a cell. For more information you can visit: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet

[Anmol-Baranwal]

It is not possible to vertically align text to the top of a cell in a Markdown table on GitHub. This is because Markdown doesn't provide a way to control the vertical alignment of content within a cell.

While you can use HTML and CSS to style the table, including aligning text to the left, right, or center, vertical alignment is not possible using Markdown on GitHub.

To align, you can use:

Left-
| Header 1 | Header 2 |
|:----|:----|   

Center-
| Header 1 | Header 2 |
|:---:|:---:|  

[MelB507]

Booooooooooo - ok thanks guys

[Wesseldr]

You can simulate the top allign with using the html br code in the cell you like to push the line up like this:

OS	Debian 12 Bookworm
Databases	SalesDB StockDB

[iandall]

I don't know why this works, but it does!

[cdauth]

While this does not seem to be possible using Markdown syntax, it is possible using HTML syntax inside Markdown and using <td valign="top"> for the table cells:

<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>

**OS**

</td>
<td>Debian 12 Bookworm</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">

**Databases**

</td>
<td>

* SalesDB
* StockDB

</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

OS	Debian 12 Bookworm
Databases	SalesDB StockDB

Unfortunately, if you want to use Markdown inside the table cells, you must insert two newlines after <td> and again two newlines before </td>. This makes the Markdown look really ugly, but at least the result looks nice.