May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
13h 37m
English
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Name
col — Specifications for a column in an HTML table
Synopsis
col ::= empty
Attribute synopsis
Attributes:
align(enumeration) = “left” | “center” | “right” | “justify” | “char”charcharoff(enumeration) =xsd:integer|xsd:string(Pattern: “[0–9]+%”)span(nonNegativeInteger)valign(enumeration) = “top” | “middle” | “bottom” | “baseline”width
Description
Identifies a column specification in an HTML table.
Processing expectations
Processed like an HTML col.
Attributes
- align
Specifies the alignment of data and the justification of text in a cell.
Enumerated values: “left” Left-flush data/Left-justify text. This is the default value for table data.
“center” Center data/Center-justify text. This is the default value for table headers.
“right” Right-flush data/Right-justify text.
“justify” Double-justify text.
“char” Align text around a specific character. If a user agent doesn’t support character alignment, behavior in the presence of this value is unspecified.
- char
Specifies a single character within a text fragment to act as an axis for alignment. The default value for this attribute is the decimal point character for the current language as set by the
langattribute (e.g., the period in English and the comma in French). User agents are not required to support this attribute.- charoff
When present, specifies the offset to the first occurrence of the alignment character on each line. If a line doesn’t include the alignment character, it should be horizontally shifted to end at the alignment position. When ...
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