Are pipes and line breaks inside cells preserved?

Pipes are written as \| and line breaks as . Parsing the Markdown restores the original cell strings.

Are links or HTML executed?

No. Inline Markdown and HTML remain cell text, and the preview constructs text nodes from validated Table JSON.

Can prose appear before or after the table?

No. Input must contain exactly one GFM table. Surrounding prose and multiple tables produce an explicit error.

Markdown Table ↔ JSON — tools by hsb.horse

How to use

Choose a direction
Select Markdown to JSON or JSON to Markdown.
Enter one table
Paste a single GFM table or version 1 Table JSON, or open a local file.
Inspect the result
Check the safe preview, then copy or download the result.

Input is capped at 5 MiB for both pasted text and files, and the table at 100,000 cells (columns × rows). Exceeding either is an error and nothing is converted. The JSON side accepts only normalized Table JSON version 1 (caption / header / alignments / rows) — an arbitrary JSON array cannot be converted.

Frequently asked questions

Are pipes and line breaks inside cells preserved?: Pipes are written as \| and line breaks as <br>. Parsing the Markdown restores the original cell strings.
Are links or HTML executed?: No. Inline Markdown and HTML remain cell text, and the preview constructs text nodes from validated Table JSON.
Can prose appear before or after the table?: No. Input must contain exactly one GFM table. Surrounding prose and multiple tables produce an explicit error.

Markdown Table ↔ JSON

Table JSON output

Safe table preview

How to use

Choose a direction

Enter one table

Inspect the result

Scope of the result

Frequently asked questions