Table headers with arbitrary locations in Github flavored markdown

Question

In the gfm documentation, the examples for tables always have the table headers at the top.

| foo | hello |
| --- | ----- |
| bar | test  |

Is there a way to place the headers in arbitrary locations, for example to have headers on the top and side? This can be done using HTML to make the table, however is there a solution to this without using HTML?

Answer 1

No, there is no way to do this without using HTML.