Indented Table Render

Obsidian leaves indented pipe tables as plain text in Live Preview, for example a table nested in a list item:

- test

  | f | f |
  |-|-|
  | e | e |

This plugin renders them as tables, without changing the note.

Supported

• Live Preview: the table is shown rendered; moving the cursor into it, or clicking it, shows the Markdown source for editing.
• Reading view: tables Obsidian left as plain text are rendered. Tables in list items usually render already and are left alone.
• Tables nested in list items, at any indent.
• Tables indented 1–3 spaces under a heading or paragraph (Atom-style notes). 4 or more spaces outside a list is a code block in Markdown and stays one.
• Delimiter rows with 1 or more dashes (|-|-|, | --- |), alignment colons, escaped pipes \|, optional leading and trailing pipes.
• Tables inside fenced code blocks and the frontmatter are ignored. Flush-left tables are left to Obsidian.

A table needs a header row, then a delimiter row with the same number of cells, all at the same indent. Body rows continue while lines keep that indent and contain a |.

Installation

Manual

1. Download main.js and manifest.json from the latest release.
2. Put them in <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/indented-table-render/.
3. Reload Obsidian and enable Indented Table Render in Settings → Community plugins.

Disable other plugins that render or style indented tables (such as Nested Markdown Renderer or Indented Table), so they don't draw the same table twice.

Releasing

1. Bump version in manifest.json and add it to versions.json.
2. Commit, then push a tag with the exact version, for example git tag 0.1.1 && git push origin main 0.1.1.

The release workflow creates the GitHub release and attaches artifact attestations for main.js and manifest.json.

License

MIT