Slack webhook html table

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Punter Vicky picture Punter Vicky · May 6, 2016 · Viewed 65.7k times · Source

I have a HTML table that I am trying to post to Slack via webhook.

Is there a way to post the HTML table to Slack?

Here is the HTML code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>HTML Tables</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <table border="1">
         <tr>
            <td>Row 1, Column 1</td>
            <td>Row 1, Column 2</td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td>Row 2, Column 1</td>
            <td>Row 2, Column 2</td>
         </tr>
      </table>
   </body>
</html>

Answer

Sahar Menashe picture Sahar Menashe · Aug 23, 2016

I have opened a ticket to Slack support asking if Slack's Incoming Webhook message supports table of any form (HTML or Markdown).

The official answer is that Slack messages do not support tables.

They suggest to generate a table and post it as an image.

They also said that they will add it to their backlog.

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