# The default alignment of markdown table should be left-aligned?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-default-alignment-of-markdown-table-should-be-left-aligned/85344>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** question, markdown\
**Created:** [August 5, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-default-alignment-of-markdown-table-should-be-left-aligned/85344 "2022-08-05T13:03:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![hyrodium](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/hyrodium/32/27015_2.png) [@hyrodium](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/hyrodium)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-default-alignment-of-markdown-table-should-be-left-aligned/85344/1 "2022-08-05T13:03:40Z")

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Julia’s default tables are right-aligned (See [documentation](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/Markdown/#Tables)), but many other markdown parsers default to left-aligned (e.g. [GitHub markdown](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/working-with-advanced-formatting/organizing-information-with-tables#creating-a-table)).

I have made some PRs to some docs ([PlotDocs.jl](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/PlotDocs.jl/pull/290), [Images.jl](https://github.com/JuliaImages/juliaimages.github.io/pull/196)) because left-alignment is easier to read in many tables, and I have come to the conclusion that it would be better to change Julia to default to left-alignment.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?