Obsidian Sheets

This is a plugin for Obsidian that brings greater functionality and usage of markdown tables.

Features

• Cell Merging
• Vertical Table Headings
• Custom css cell styles
• Advanced Tables compatibility

How to Use

Create a normal markdown table and start using Obsidian Sheets features:

The characters < and ^ in a cell will merge it with the cell to the left and above. Merged cells stack with each other, as seen below.

| Just                               | a   | normal       | table |
| ---------------------------------- | --- | ------------ | ----- |
| Use `<` to merge cells to the left | <   | Merged cell! | <     |
| Use `^` to merge cells up          | <   | ^            | ^     |

Vertical Headers are created by making a column contain only dashes, much like how native horizontal headers are made with a row containing only dashes.

| I        | -   | have | horizontal | headers |
| -------- | --- | ---- | ---------- | ------- |
| also     | -   | foo  | bar        | <       |
| have     | -   | 1    | 2          | 3       |
| vertical | -   | A    | B          | C       |
| headers! | -   | X    | Y          | Z       |

And it works with Advanced Tables!

Use the sheet language tag and start using Obsidian Sheets with custom CSS! Partition off the class names, prefixed with a . using a ~ as seen below and use CSS with said class names in metadata above the table.

```sheet
{
    classes: { 
        class1: { 
            "color": "cyan",
        },
        class2: {
            backgroundColor: "#555",
        }
    },
}
---
| I                 | -   | have | meta                  | data        | too! |
| ----------------- | --- | ---- | --------------------- | ----------- | ---- |
| group 1           | -   | foo  | bar ~ .class1 .class2 | baz         | test |
| group 2 ~ .class1 | -   | 1    | ^                     | 3 ~ .class2 | 4    |

```

Apply custom css to full rows and headers by applying custom classes to the row and column headers. Markdown table alignment with : is also allowed.

```sheet
{
    classes: {
        c1: {
            "color": "cyan",
        },
        c2: {
            backgroundColor: "#555",
        }
    },
}

---

| I           | ----   | have     | meta       | data  | too! |
| ----------- | ----   | -: ~ .c2 | ---------- | ----- | ---- |
| group 1     | - ~.c1 | foo      | bar        | baz   | test |
| group 2     | ------ | 1        | ^          | 3     | 4    |

```

Apply custom styles to the entire table by using the custom styles/classes syntax on the metadata!

```sheet

{
    classes: {
        c1: {
            "color": "cyan",
        },
        c2: {
            backgroundColor: "#555",
        }
    },
}

--- ~ { color: 'red' }

| I           | ----   | have     | meta                  | data        | too! |
| ------------| ------ | -: ~ .c2 | --------------------- | ----------- | ---- |
| group 1     | ----   | ~~foo~~  | bar ~ .c1 .c2         | $baz$       | test |
| group 2     | - ~.c1 | 1\. test | ^                     | 3 ~ .c2     | 4    |
```

You can also directly apply custom css to cells instead of defining a class

| Custom  | css                             | cells |
| ------- | ------------------------------- | ----- |
| group 1 | foo ~ { "text-align": "right" } | <     |

Installation

From within Obsidian

This plugin is now available on Obsidian community plugins under the name Sheets Extended.

Go to Settings -> Community plugins -> Browse, search for Sheets Extended, click install then enable.

Manual

1. Download main.js, styles.css, and mainfest.json from releases
2. Place the installed files in <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/sheets
3. Reload Obsidian (Open command palette and Reload without saving)
4. Go to Settings -> Options -> Community Plugins and disable safe mode
5. Enable the plugin Sheets Extended under Settings -> Options -> Community Plugins -> Installed plugins

Future Functionality

• Merging Cells
• Vertical Headers
• Custom Cell Styles
  • Custom row and column styles
  • Inline custom styles
• Automatic advanced-table-like Formatting
  • Custom css for advanced-table

Support me!

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