tablefmt for VS Code
Convert delimited data (CSV, TSV, pipe-separated) into formatted tables, re-align existing ones, and convert between 12 styles — Markdown, RST, AsciiDoc, Jira, Org-mode, plain ASCII, and Unicode box-drawing.
Commands
All commands are available in the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P) and in the right-click context menu.
| Command |
Description |
tablefmt: Data to table |
Auto-detect delimiter (\|, ;, ,, tab) in selected text (or lines around cursor), parse as tabular data, format with defaultStyle. |
tablefmt: Data to table with style |
Prompts for output style, then same as above. |
tablefmt: Format table |
Detect existing table style, re-align columns in place. Works on selection or finds the table around the cursor automatically. |
tablefmt: Format table to style |
Prompts for output style, then re-renders the table in the new style. |
tablefmt: Add column before cursor |
Insert a blank column before the column at the cursor position. |
tablefmt: Add column after cursor |
Insert a blank column after the column at the cursor position. |
tablefmt: Remove column at cursor |
Remove the column at the cursor position. |
With selection: the selected text is used as input.
Without selection: the extension searches for table content around the current cursor line automatically. "Data to table" looks for contiguous lines containing |; "Format table" detects any supported style.
Settings
| Setting |
Default |
Description |
tablefmt.defaultStyle |
"github" |
Output style used by "Data to table" |
Available styles: github, psql, asciidoc, jira, rst, rst-grid, orgtbl, ascii, modern, sharp, extended, heavy-outline.
Output styles
github — GitHub-flavored Markdown (default)
| Month | Revenue | Units |
|-------|----------|-------|
| Jan | 12500.50 | 342 |
| Feb | 13200.75 | 389 |
| Mar | 15800.25 | 421 |
psql — PostgreSQL \pset border 2 style
Month | Revenue | Units
-------+----------+-------
Jan | 12500.50 | 342
Feb | 13200.75 | 389
Mar | 15800.25 | 421
asciidoc — AsciiDoc table
[cols="<5,>8,>5",options="header"]
|====
| Month | Revenue | Units
| Jan | 12500.50 | 342
| Feb | 13200.75 | 389
| Mar | 15800.25 | 421
|====
jira — Atlassian Jira wiki table
|| Month || Revenue || Units ||
| Jan | 12500.50 | 342 |
| Feb | 13200.75 | 389 |
| Mar | 15800.25 | 421 |
rst — reStructuredText simple table
======= ========== =======
Month Revenue Units
======= ========== =======
Jan 12500.50 342
Feb 13200.75 389
Mar 15800.25 421
======= ========== =======
rst-grid — reStructuredText grid table
+-------+----------+-------+
| Month | Revenue | Units |
+=======+==========+=======+
| Jan | 12500.50 | 342 |
+-------+----------+-------+
| Feb | 13200.75 | 389 |
+-------+----------+-------+
| Mar | 15800.25 | 421 |
+-------+----------+-------+
orgtbl — Emacs Org-mode table
| Month | Revenue | Units |
|-------+----------+-------|
| Jan | 12500.50 | 342 |
| Feb | 13200.75 | 389 |
| Mar | 15800.25 | 421 |
ascii — Plain ASCII
+-------+----------+-------+
| Month | Revenue | Units |
+-------+----------+-------+
| Jan | 12500.50 | 342 |
+-------+----------+-------+
| Feb | 13200.75 | 389 |
+-------+----------+-------+
| Mar | 15800.25 | 421 |
+-------+----------+-------+
modern — Unicode box-drawing (thin lines, row separators)
┌───────┬──────────┬───────┐
│ Month │ Revenue │ Units │
├───────┼──────────┼───────┤
│ Jan │ 12500.50 │ 342 │
├───────┼──────────┼───────┤
│ Feb │ 13200.75 │ 389 │
├───────┼──────────┼───────┤
│ Mar │ 15800.25 │ 421 │
└───────┴──────────┴───────┘
sharp — Unicode box-drawing (thin lines, no row separators)
┌───────┬──────────┬───────┐
│ Month │ Revenue │ Units │
├───────┼──────────┼───────┤
│ Jan │ 12500.50 │ 342 │
│ Feb │ 13200.75 │ 389 │
│ Mar │ 15800.25 │ 421 │
└───────┴──────────┴───────┘
extended — Unicode box-drawing (double lines)
╔═══════╦══════════╦═══════╗
║ Month ║ Revenue ║ Units ║
╠═══════╬══════════╬═══════╣
║ Jan ║ 12500.50 ║ 342 ║
╠═══════╬══════════╬═══════╣
║ Feb ║ 13200.75 ║ 389 ║
╠═══════╬══════════╬═══════╣
║ Mar ║ 15800.25 ║ 421 ║
╚═══════╩══════════╩═══════╝
heavy-outline — Unicode box-drawing (heavy outer border)
┏━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┓
┃ Month ┃ Revenue ┃ Units ┃
┣━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━┫
┃ Jan ┃ 12500.50 ┃ 342 ┃
┃ Feb ┃ 13200.75 ┃ 389 ┃
┃ Mar ┃ 15800.25 ┃ 421 ┃
┗━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━┛
