showdown.subParser('tables', function (text, options, globals) {
  'use strict';

  if (!options.tables) {
    return text;
  }

  var tableRgx       = /^ {0,3}\|?.+\|.+\n {0,3}\|?[ \t]*:?[ \t]*(?:[-=]){2,}[ \t]*:?[ \t]*\|[ \t]*:?[ \t]*(?:[-=]){2,}[\s\S]+?(?:\n\n|¨0)/gm,
    //singeColTblRgx = /^ {0,3}\|.+\|\n {0,3}\|[ \t]*:?[ \t]*(?:[-=]){2,}[ \t]*:?[ \t]*\|[ \t]*\n(?: {0,3}\|.+\|\n)+(?:\n\n|¨0)/gm;
      singeColTblRgx = /^ {0,3}\|.+\|\n {0,3}\|[ \t]*:?[ \t]*(?:[-=]){2,}[ \t]*:?[ \t]*\|\n( {0,3}\|.+\|\n)*(?:\n|¨0)/gm;

  function parseStyles (sLine) {
    if (/^:[ \t]*--*$/.test(sLine)) {
      return ' style="text-align:left;"';
    } else if (/^--*[ \t]*:[ \t]*$/.test(sLine)) {
      return ' style="text-align:right;"';
    } else if (/^:[ \t]*--*[ \t]*:$/.test(sLine)) {
      return ' style="text-align:center;"';
    } else {
      return '';
    }
  }

  function parseHeaders (header, style) {
    var id = '';
    header = header.trim();
    // support both tablesHeaderId and tableHeaderId due to error in documention so we don't break backwards compatibility
    if (options.tablesHeaderId || options.tableHeaderId) {
      id = ' id="' + header.replace(/ /g, '_').toLowerCase() + '"';
    }
    header = showdown.subParser('spanGamut')(header, options, globals);

    return '<th' + id + style + '>' + header + '</th>\n';
  }

  function parseCells (cell, style) {
    var subText = showdown.subParser('spanGamut')(cell, options, globals);
    return '<td' + style + '>' + subText + '</td>\n';
  }

  function buildTable (headers, cells) {
    var tb = '<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n',
        tblLgn = headers.length;

    for (var i = 0; i < tblLgn; ++i) {
      tb += headers[i];
    }
    tb += '</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n';

    for (i = 0; i < cells.length; ++i) {
      tb += '<tr>\n';
      for (var ii = 0; ii < tblLgn; ++ii) {
        tb += cells[i][ii];
      }
      tb += '</tr>\n';
    }
    tb += '</tbody>\n</table>\n';
    return tb;
  }

  function parseTable (rawTable) {
    var i, tableLines = rawTable.split('\n');

    // strip wrong first and last column if wrapped tables are used
    for (i = 0; i < tableLines.length; ++i) {
      if (/^ {0,3}\|/.test(tableLines[i])) {
        tableLines[i] = tableLines[i].replace(/^ {0,3}\|/, '');
      }
      if (/\|[ \t]*$/.test(tableLines[i])) {
        tableLines[i] = tableLines[i].replace(/\|[ \t]*$/, '');
      }
    }

    var rawHeaders = tableLines[0].split('|').map(function (s) { return s.trim();}),
        rawStyles = tableLines[1].split('|').map(function (s) { return s.trim();}),
        rawCells = [],
        headers = [],
        styles = [],
        cells = [];

    tableLines.shift();
    tableLines.shift();

    for (i = 0; i < tableLines.length; ++i) {
      if (tableLines[i].trim() === '') {
        continue;
      }
      rawCells.push(
        tableLines[i]
          .split('|')
          .map(function (s) {
            return s.trim();
          })
      );
    }

    if (rawHeaders.length < rawStyles.length) {
      return rawTable;
    }

    for (i = 0; i < rawStyles.length; ++i) {
      styles.push(parseStyles(rawStyles[i]));
    }

    for (i = 0; i < rawHeaders.length; ++i) {
      if (showdown.helper.isUndefined(styles[i])) {
        styles[i] = '';
      }
      headers.push(parseHeaders(rawHeaders[i], styles[i]));
    }

    for (i = 0; i < rawCells.length; ++i) {
      var row = [];
      for (var ii = 0; ii < headers.length; ++ii) {
        if (showdown.helper.isUndefined(rawCells[i][ii])) {

        }
        row.push(parseCells(rawCells[i][ii], styles[ii]));
      }
      cells.push(row);
    }

    return buildTable(headers, cells);
  }

  text = globals.converter._dispatch('tables.before', text, options, globals);

  // find escaped pipe characters
  text = text.replace(/\\(\|)/g, showdown.helper.escapeCharactersCallback);

  // parse multi column tables
  text = text.replace(tableRgx, parseTable);

  // parse one column tables
  text = text.replace(singeColTblRgx, parseTable);

  text = globals.converter._dispatch('tables.after', text, options, globals);

  return text;
});