console.table text alignment always centered #50117
Description
Version
v18.17.1
Platform
Linux nucke 6.2.0-33-generic #33~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Sep 7 10:33:52 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Subsystem
internal/cli_table.js
What steps will reproduce the bug?
> console.table(["x", "xxxxxxxxxx"])
How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?
Always.
What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?
┌─────────┬──────────────┐
│ (index) │ Values │
├─────────┼──────────────┤
│ 0 │ 'x' │
│ 1 │ 'xxxxxxxxxx' │
└─────────┴──────────────┘
What do you see instead?
┌─────────┬──────────────┐
│ (index) │ Values │
├─────────┼──────────────┤
│ 0 │ 'x' │
│ 1 │ 'xxxxxxxxxx' │
└─────────┴──────────────┘
Additional information
The centered content in the table makes output harder to read and counteracts the idea of using a table to display structured data.
A real-world example:
const response = await fetch("https://api.openopus.org/composer/list/search/straus.json");
const { composers } = await response.json();
console.table(composers[0]);
┌───────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ (index) │ Values │
├───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ id │ '171' │
│ name │ 'Strauss' │
│ complete_name │ 'Richard Strauss' │
│ birth │ '1864-01-01' │
│ death │ '1949-01-01' │
│ epoch │ 'Late Romantic' │
│ portrait │ 'https://assets.openopus.org/portraits/29972276-1568084951.jpg' │
└───────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘It is also not clear why the Node.js implementation differs from those in current browsers:
Edge:
Firefox:
