Set table column width via Markdown

The simple addition of an empty <img> tag with a predefined width worked for me:

|Name|Value|
|----|---------|
|<img width=200/>|<img width=500/>|

Presumably, whether it works depends on the parser used. The above was in BookStack.

As it turns out, it also depends on the browser used to view the resulting table. So it might not work in all cases.

I was looking the answer for a long time and finally figured out this solution. markdown columns width is determined by the longest cell in the column, so use html space entity   as many times as needed to widen the column. it looks ugly in edit mode but finally do the trick:

Name                                          | Value
-------|-------------------
`Value-One` | Long explanation
`Value-Two` | Long explanation
`etc` | Long explanation

I'm not sure if this works in your case.

You can try wrapping the table into a div and then style it via CSS:

<div class="foo">

Header | header
------ | -----
Bar | bar

</div>

CSS:

.foo table {
  styles...
}

Should work.

Hope to have helped!

A solution that can work if your Markdown flavor supports div elements and inline HTML (also in tables):

| <div style="width:290px">property</div> | description                           |
| --------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
| `border-bottom-right-radius`            | Defines the shape of the bottom-right |

It seems like Slate supports inline HTML.