diff --git a/html2markdown.py b/html2markdown.py
index c23034a..3369e3e 100644
--- a/html2markdown.py
+++ b/html2markdown.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 import bs4
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 import re
+from copy import copy
 
 import sys
 if sys.version_info[0] > 2:
@@ -41,7 +42,8 @@
 	'br',
 	'img',
 	'pre','code',
-	'hr'
+	'hr',
+	'table'
 }
 _supportedAttributes = (
 	'a href',
@@ -113,6 +115,7 @@
 	'wbr',
 }
 
+
 def _supportedAttrs(tag):
 	sAttrs = [attr.split(' ')[1] for attr in _supportedAttributes if attr.split(' ')[0]==tag.name]
 	for attr in tag.attrs:
@@ -160,6 +163,65 @@ def _breakRemNewlines(tag):
 			continue
 		c.replace_with(re.sub(r' {2,}', ' ', c).replace('\n',''))
 
+
+ALIGN_TO_FMT = {
+	'': '<',
+	'right': '>',
+	'center': '^',
+	'left': '<'
+}
+
+
+def _render_row(row, widths, aligns):
+
+	is_header = False
+	_data = []
+	for i, cell in enumerate(row.children):
+		w = widths[i]
+		a = aligns[i]
+		if cell.name == 'th':
+			is_header = True
+		_data.append('{:{align}{width}}'.format(cell.text, align=ALIGN_TO_FMT[a], width=w))
+
+	output = ['| %s |' % (' | '.join(_data))]
+	if is_header:
+		_data = []
+		for j, w in enumerate(widths):
+			a = aligns[j]
+			if 'center' == a:
+				_data.append(':%s:' % ('-'*w))
+			elif 'right' == a:
+				_data.append(' %s:' % ('-'*w))
+			else:
+				_data.append(' %s ' % ('-'*w))
+		output.append('|%s|' % ('|'.join(_data)))
+	return output
+
+
+def _iterate_cols(row, widths, aligns):
+	_widths = copy(widths)
+	_aligns = copy(aligns)
+	for i, cell in enumerate(row.children):
+		# char widths
+		ln = len(cell.text)
+		if len(_widths) > i:
+			if _widths[i] < ln:
+				_widths[i] = ln
+		else:
+			_widths.append(ln)
+		# aligns
+		if len(_aligns) <= i:
+			_aligns.append('')
+		if 'style' in cell.attrs:
+			styles = cell.attrs['style'].split(';')
+			for s in styles:
+				[nam, valu] = [x.strip() for x in s.split(':')]
+				if nam == 'text-align':
+					_aligns[i] = valu
+					break
+	return _widths, _aligns
+
+
 def _markdownify(tag, _listType=None, _blockQuote=False, _listIndex=1):
 	"""recursively converts a tag into markdown"""
 	children = tag.find_all(recursive=False)
@@ -243,6 +305,20 @@ def _markdownify(tag, _listType=None, _blockQuote=False, _listIndex=1):
 		tag.insert_before('`` ')
 		tag.insert_after(' ``')
 		tag.unwrap()
+	elif tag.name == 'table':
+		widths = []
+		aligns = []
+		output = []
+		if tag.children.next().name in ['thead', 'tbody']:
+			for block in tag.children:
+				block.unwrap()
+		for row in tag.children:
+			widths, aligns = _iterate_cols(row, widths, aligns)
+		for row in tag.children:
+			output.extend(_render_row(row, widths, aligns))
+		tag.string = '\n'.join(output)
+		tag.unwrap()
+
 	elif _recursivelyValid(tag):
 		if tag.name == 'blockquote':
 			# ! FIXME: hack
@@ -329,6 +405,7 @@ def _markdownify(tag, _listType=None, _blockQuote=False, _listIndex=1):
 		for child in children:
 			_markdownify(child)
 
+
 def convert(html):
 	"""converts an html string to markdown while preserving unsupported markup."""
 	bs = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
diff --git a/tests.py b/tests.py
index 23816fc..aa750aa 100644
--- a/tests.py
+++ b/tests.py
@@ -59,6 +59,17 @@ def test_inline_tag_content(self):
 				'Tag: {}. Conversion: {}'.format(tag, mdStr)
 			)
 
+	def test_table_tag(self):
+		"""<table> tags should be converted. columns should preserve width across rows.
+			td|th tag attr style="text-align: [left|center|right]" should be observed
+		"""
+		testStr = '<table><thead><tr><th><b>One</b></th><th style="text-align: right">Two</th></tr></thead>' \
+				  '<tbody><tr><td>Line 1</td><td>Second Line</td></tr></tbody></table>'
+		expectedStr = u'| One    |         Two |\n| ------ | -----------:|\n| Line 1 | Second Line |'
+		mdStr = html2markdown.convert(testStr)
+		self.assertEqual(mdStr, expectedStr)
+
+
 class TestEscaping(unittest.TestCase):
 
 	escapableChars = r'\`*_{}[]()#+-.!'