Cell never shown

A row of a table has more cells than the table has columns. A table has as many columns as its first two lines have: the line of headings and the line of dashes under it. A cell past the last column is dropped, so the row is shown without it.

What you’ll see

warning  Cell never shown: `Extra` is past the table's 2 columns
  Add a column to the table's first two lines, or take the cell out.
  More: https://statac.dev/e/cell-never-shown/

In the terminal the message also names the file and line where there is one, and marks the exact text.

Why Statac warns

Statac shows each row with the table’s columns, as Markdown does, and publishes the page. It tells you, because the dropped cell is writing you wrote that readers never see. It is often a column added to some rows and not to the first two lines, or a | meant as part of a cell’s words.

How to fix it

Add a column to the table’s first two lines, a heading and its dashes, or take the cell out. To write | inside a cell, write it \|, inside a code span too. A row with empty cells past the last column loses nothing, and Statac says nothing of it.

Example

In content/post-1.md:

| Name   | Count |
|--------|-------|
| Post 1 | 1     | Extra |

Add the column:

| Name   | Count | Note  |
|--------|-------|-------|
| Post 1 | 1     | Extra |

Its name

Name	cell-never-shown
In the terminal	statac explain cell-never-shown
To stop showing it	quiet: [cell-never-shown] in statac.yaml, once you have understood it. Statac still counts it.