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Special Chars and emojis

Special chars​

Special chars might have different length of chars in your console. For that if you want to declare yourself the length of the character then you should use charLength option.

import { Table } from "console-table-printer";
const bundle = new Table({
  title: "My Table",
  charLength: { "👍": 2, "✅": 2 },
});

bundle.addRows([
  {
    Col1: "👍",
    Column2: "✅",
    SomeOtherCol: "Some Random string",
    SomeOtherCol2: "123_sdas",
  },
]);

bundle.printTable();
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Newlines in cells​

The library properly handles newline characters (\n) in table cells. When a cell contains newlines, the content will be displayed on multiple lines while maintaining the table structure.

const p = new Table({
  title: 'Multiline Text Examples',
  columns: [
    { name: 'col1', title: 'Product', alignment: 'left',  },
    { name: 'col2', title: 'Description', alignment: 'left', minLen: 30 },
    { name: 'col3', title: 'Price', alignment: 'right' }
  ]
});

// Simple multiline
p.addRow({ 
  col1: 'Laptop',
  col2: 'Line 1\nLine 2',  // Basic multiline
  col3: '$999.99'
});

// Product description with features
p.addRow({ 
  col1: 'Smartphone',
  col2: '- 6.7" Display\n- 256GB Storage\n- 5G Ready',  // Bullet points
  col3: '$799.99'
});

// Long text wrapping
p.addRow({ 
  col1: 'Headphones',
  col2: 'Wireless noise cancelling\nBluetooth 5.0\n40h battery life',
  col3: '$249.99'
});

// Technical specifications
p.addRow({ 
  col1: 'Camera',
  col2: 'Resolution: 48MP\nZoom: 10x Optical\nISO: 100-6400',
  col3: '$1,299.99'
});

// Product warning
p.addRow({ 
  col1: 'Battery Pack',
  col2: 'WARNING:\nDo not expose to heat\nKeep away from water',
  col3: '$79.99'
});

p.printTable();

This will produce a table with multiline content in various formats:

Screenshot

You can use this feature to:

  • Display multi-line text in a structured way
  • Show formatted content with line breaks
  • Present hierarchical or grouped information
  • Format long text content to fit within column width constraints