We need some kind of Table Header formatting. Obviously you could just bold your links, but we need something a bit more cleaner like the header styles!
I like the way Typora does it where the first line is automatically bolded. Some styles even use a different color or some kind of darker line underneath!
We’re going to do a lot of changes to the tables, we’ll keep this into consideration.
I personally dislike the bold header row in Version 1.0 (415).
Bear shouldn’t assume that every table will use a header row. Some tables use a header column instead. For example, see the “Important Links” table in the Panda welcome document.
Also, this header row style is inconsistent with markdown syntax where bold items are surrounded by **asterisks**. See this related thread where you all decided to remove the strikethrough for the checkbox style.
Hello!
We’re still thinking about this, the Markdown format is explicitly marking the first row as a header, so the new behaviour is the correct/standard one, BUT I understand your point and that’s why we didn’t had it in the first iteration.
We don’t have a solution right now, but we’re brainstorming on it 
Instead of automatically bolding the top row and treating it as a header, it would be nice to be able to selectively treat rows and columns as headers, adding and removing ** asterisks as necessary to be consistent with the Markdown markup. Here’s an example of a typical table for me:
I’ve only been using the new editor a few days ago (starting with Version 1.0 (415)), but I know I will be using tables quite a bit when the new editor makes it into Bear.
I agree, I feel like if a table needs a table header row, it should be an option to add one when clicking the three-dot menu for the table (or when writing in pure markdown). The HTML output neither defines the top row as being contained within a <thead>, nor the cells as <th>, they resemble every other row as <tr> and <td>'s, meaning that sharing using copy as html option won’t correctly translate in another program. the markdown copy does follow standard markdown correctly but assumes that the first row is always a header. copying and pasting a markdown table that has no header row from a markdown file does not translate into a table in Panda.
@matteo @trix180 is bear going to move forward always assuming that tables have to have a header ?
That is with a first row that will automatically be formatted, regardless of what I specify ?
I’m writing correspondance tables between 3-4 languages and don’t need headers, so I don’t really like having the first row bolded.
Yes, we are moving in this direction. Unfortunately, this is a limit of the MD tables’ as they are used by tools such as GitHub.
The heading in markdown syntax is mandatory. But is the rendering of the content of the header in bold fonts mandatory to the same extent?
EDIT:
Sorry for that. I should have tried a markdown table generator before asking such a dumb question 
Ignore the post, please
I must be the dumb one now, because that seems like a very reasonable question to me. Why can’t Bear render the top row not bold?
Especially given that you can manually bold the text in that row, with disappearing ** syntax to boot. But it’s bold either way, so it’s a weird working redundancy.
If anything, how about option to at least hide the header row? That way it’s there in the underlying plain text, even as a blank row.
AFAIK markdown does not support header-less tables. Bear is a markdown editor, so this does not make sense. And to differentiate headers from the content, bold font is a logical choice.
If you want advanced tables, use Excel or a rich text editor. I like that Bear is staying true to its markdown identity.
Pardon if this is not possible due to Markdown’s restrictions, but it would be nice to use Heading levels in Table Headers. It’s a bit odd that this is disabled in the Alpha. Maybe this changed in the Beta?
I’m afraid this goes against markdown specification because headers should start at the beginning of the line.
Curious, how often does markdown get updated, if at all?
The answer to this is unfortunately complex. “Vanilla” Markdown rarely has received updates but variants, like commonmark and github, are updated more often. Cmark last specs update was in 2021.
