Is there a way to make tables' column widths be automatic?

[postylem]

Description

Is there a simple way to get the column widths to be automatic? For instance, a simple table like this

| Col1  | Col2  | Col3  |
| ----- | ----- | ----- |
| short | short | this is very long, blah blah blah, it will wrap, and its column should be wide.  it should take up most of the space.  |

results in a table whose columns are all ⅓ width (so, in html we get <col style="width: 33%"> or latex we get columns with width specified each to be {(\columnwidth - 4\tabcolsep) * \real{0.3333}}).

Is there a way to make columns be automatically sized, as you would get in LaTeX or HTML by default without specifying col widths?

Of course I could get what I want by something like this, but I wonder if it's possible to get this automatically by some markdown convention.

| Col1  | Col2  | Col3  |
| ----- | ----- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| short | short | this is very long, blah blah blah, it will wrap, and its column should be wide.  it should take up most of the space.  |

[cscheid]

You can specify tbl-colwidths as an attribute,

| Col1  | Col2  | Col3  |
| ----- | ----- | ----- |
| short | short | this is very long, blah blah blah, it will wrap, and its column should be wide.  it should take up most of the space.  |

: {tbl-colwidths="[10, 10, 80]"}

[postylem]

This is nicer than my example, yeah, but it isn't automatic (the reason I'm wondering is, at least in HTML and LaTeX, auto widths is the default, so it seems plausible there'd be a way of getting that default table behavior out of pandoc/quarto, but maybe there isn't)

[cscheid]

there'd be a way of getting that default table behavior

No, there isn't; that's a limitation of markdown tables unfortunately.