Convert CSV to Markdown Table

Need to display tabular data in your GitHub README, documentation, or blog post? Converting your CSV to a Markdown table is the cleanest way to do it.

What is Markdown Table Format?

Markdown uses pipes (|) and dashes (-) to create tables:

| Name | Email            | Role  |
| ---- | ---------------- | ----- |
| John | john@example.com | Admin |
| Jane | jane@example.com | User  |

This renders as a nicely formatted table on GitHub, GitLab, and most documentation sites.

Quick Conversion

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Manual Method

If you're doing this programmatically:

function csvToMarkdown(csv) {
  const lines = csv.trim().split("\n");
  const headers = lines[0].split(",");

  let md = "| " + headers.join(" | ") + " |\n";
  md += "|" + headers.map(() => "---").join("|") + "|\n";

  for (let i = 1; i < lines.length; i++) {
    md += "| " + lines[i].split(",").join(" | ") + " |\n";
  }

  return md;
}

Handling Special Characters

If your data contains pipe characters (|), they need to be escaped as \|. Our converter handles this automatically.

Use Cases

• GitHub READMEs - Display data tables in your repo
• Documentation - Create tables in Markdown docs
• Blog Posts - Add structured data to articles
• Wikis - Confluence, Notion, and other wikis support Markdown

Tips

1. Keep tables under 7 columns for readability
2. Use short header names when possible
3. Consider splitting large tables into sections

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