Sending tables in webex

[khanali198361]

Hi developers,
I'm trying to send tables to webex using markdown using the messaging API but the tables received are completely out of order. 
Is there a way to send tables to webex without disturbing the formatting ?

[Adam Weeks, Webex Evangelism]

Since markdown tables aren't supported, I've used basic ascii tables generated from https://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/ and surrounded by triple backticks to get it to render properly

[dtibbe]

Tables are not supported in the markup subset used by Webex.

You may try sending them using html tags (untested, just as an idea), but that is not officially supported

[khanali198361]

I tried sending through HTML tags but it just sends the code to webex and doesn't format it to table. Can you tell me how I can send using HTML tags ? Maybe an example ? 

[dtibbe]

Have you put it into the markdown field?

See this example for a blockquote: https://community.cisco.com/t5/webex-meetings-and-webex-app/blockquote-color-vertical-bar-help/m-p/4627226#M8871

[khanali198361]

The webex messaging API is so bad doesn't even format HTML tables properly. 
Im passing the following HTML. 

"<table> <thead> <tr> <th>Header</th> <th>Header</th> <th>Header</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Cell</td> <td>Cell</td> <td>Cell</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Cell</td> <td>Cell</td> <td>Cell</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Cell</td> <td>Cell</td> <td>Cell</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>"

[dstaudt]

As embedded HTML is not documented/supported for message formatting, it's perhaps unsuprising (if disappointing) that it doesn't work well
Perhaps using an adaptive card (which has a lot more layout/formatting options) would be a useful workaround.