Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Changing Header-Related and Data Cell-Related Style Elements (Part 2 of 2)

The previous example and the PROC MEANS tabular report in Figure 14.25 demonstrate that the Header element and the Data element together control all of the cells in the report. This example focuses on the specifics of the Data element.

Like the Header element, the Data element inherits many of its characteristics from the Cell element, which is an abstract element. The Cell element in turn inherits style attributes from the Container element. Figure 14.26 shows the definitions for the Container and Data elements. The code shows that the Data element overrides the Container element settings for background color and foreground color and that only the setting for FONT= style ...