Tables - top alignment

[sregier206]

Currently, you offer left, right, and center alignment in a cell.

It is also important to top-align text (or images, etc), similar to a cell in Excel. Visually, this helps the eye follow the row, especially with multiple rows. Can we have this added to GitBooks?

[viktorrenkema]

Interesting suggestion, I happen to be working on improvements to tables so i'll add it to my list to look into it!

[JaniceManwiller]

I requested this over a year ago - https://github.com/orgs/GitbookIO/discussions/272.

It is very difficult to read multi-line text across a row when the top line of the text jumps around.

[sregier206]

Agreed, horizontal and vertical alignment options in tables should be standard and are usually expected in tables., not just spreadsheet-type software.

It is also an accessibility issue, as people with vision issues who need to zoom their browser window size past 100% can have a hard time following a row if every cell in it is a different height, see W3 guidelines for an example of a recommended standard and reference.

Different cell heights across the same row in a table also adds additional eye strain.