What table syntax is supported?

Standard GitHub-flavoured Markdown (GFM) pipe tables: a header row, a |---|:--:|---:| alignment row, then data rows. Leading and trailing pipes are optional, and surrounding whitespace in each cell is trimmed.

How are pipes inside cells handled?

An escaped pipe written as a backslash followed by a pipe is treated as a literal character inside the cell, not a column separator, so values containing a pipe survive the conversion intact.

No. The Markdown is parsed and the CSV is generated entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, so it is safe to convert internal documentation or wiki tables.

How is the CSV quoted?

Output follows RFC 4180: a field is wrapped in double quotes if it contains a comma, a double quote, or a newline, and any inner double quotes are doubled. Simple fields are left unquoted for readability.

Why was my separator row removed?

The |---|---| row in a Markdown table only declares column alignment; it is presentation, not data. The converter detects and drops it so your CSV contains the header plus real rows only.

Markdown Table to CSV Converter

A GitHub-flavoured Markdown table uses pipe characters to separate columns and a dashes-and-colons row to set alignment. That alignment row is great for rendering but is noise in a spreadsheet. This converter extracts only the real data and emits clean, RFC 4180-compliant CSV you can open in Excel, Google Sheets, or load into a database.

How it works

Split the input into lines and keep the non-empty ones.
For each line, split on unescaped pipes — a \| is preserved as a literal pipe inside the cell — and drop the optional empty cells created by leading/trailing pipes.
Detect and remove the alignment row (cells made only of dashes, colons and spaces, like :---:).
Trim each remaining cell.
CSV-encode each field per RFC 4180: quote it if it contains a comma, quote, or newline, doubling any internal quotes.

Example

Input:

| Name | Role          |
|------|---------------|
| Ada  | Engineer      |
| Alan | Mathematician |

Output:

Name,Role
Ada,Engineer
Alan,Mathematician

Notes

The first surviving row is treated as the header. Cells that hold commas or quotes are automatically wrapped and escaped, so a value like Smith, Jane round-trips correctly. Everything runs locally — your table content never leaves the browser.