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Why is the fact that #Obsidian built-in #tables cannot have their columns vertically resized, triggering me so much? I mean surely it isn't that difficult to implement. I know it's not a spreadsheet. I know the idea is to keep it simple wrt markdown.
Apparently you can embed html code in a note to render tables differently? Anyone know how tf to do that? https://forum.obsidian.md/t/change-width-of-the-table-columns/73810
@dhry As you hinted at, the reason why Obsidian does not support resizing columns is that Markdown has no way of representing that information.
The point of Markdown is to keep the markup simple and human-readable in raw form. And the fact that Obsidian uses Markdown is one of its greatest selling points, as it does not lock you in and allows you to edit files in other programs too.
@dhry Markdown can contain any HTML, so technically you can create a <table> with whatever formatting you like. However, Obsidian has no support for editing such tables visually. Obsidian can render your HTML table, but you have to write the HTML yourself.
@henrikjernevad Oh THAT’S what they meant? I know how to do that but it defeats the purpose of using the “easy” Obsidian table format. I thought there was some kind of additive HTML that could modify the Obsidian table on that page and nudge it to simply have resizeable columns for example. Not create an entirely separate table from scratch.
Meh.