SAS 9.4 Output Delivery System, 3rd Edition

Dictionary

ODS HTML Statement

Opens, manages, or closes the HTML destination, which produces HTML 4.0 output that can contain

embedded style sheets.

Valid in: Anywhere

Category: ODS: Third-Party Formatted

Default: The default style for Markup family destinations is HTMLBlue.

Restriction: When you open the destination, a style sheet is written and linked to the body file.

Therefore, you cannot make style sheet changes from within your SAS program. For

example, after the destination is open, changing the value of the STYLE= option has

no effect. You can make style changes in either of the following ways:

• Close the destination, edit or create a new style sheet, and submit the program

again specifying the new or modified style sheet.

• Edit the body file, changing the style sheet URL to the desired style sheet.

Interaction: By default, when you execute a procedure that uses the FORMCHAR system option

(for example, PROC PLOT or PROC CHART), ODS formats the output in SAS

Monospace font. If you are creating output that will be viewed in an operating

environment where SAS software is not installed, this output is not displayed

correctly. This is because without SAS, the SAS Monospace font is not recognized.

To make your document display correctly, include the following statement before

your SAS program:

OPTIONS FORMCHAR="|----|+|---+=|-/\<>*";

z/OS specifics: If you use graphics that are created with either the ACTXIMG or JAVAIMG device

drivers in the z/OS operating environment, then specify either the GPATH= option or

the PATH= option in the ODS HTML statement.

Note: The ODS HTML statement supports Scalable Vector Graphics. Scalable Vector

Graphics (SVG) is an XML language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics.

For more information about creating SVG files in SAS/GRAPH, see Chapter 9,

“Using SVG Graphics,” in SAS/GRAPH: Reference. For information about SVG and

Universal Printing, see “Creating SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) Files Using

Universal Printing” in Chapter 15 of SAS Language Reference: Concepts.

Syntax

ODS HTML <(<ID=> identifier)> < action> ;

ODS HTML <(<ID=> identifier)> <option(s)> ;

Summary of Optional Arguments

(ID= identifier)

Open multiple instances of the same destination at the same time

ANCHOR= 'anchor-name'

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Specify a unique base name for the anchor tag that identifies each output

object in the current body file

ARCHIVE='string'

Specify which applet to use to view ODS HTML output

ATTRIBUTES= (attribute-pair-1 ... attribute-pair-n)

Specify attributes to write between the tags that generate dynamic graphics

output

BASE= 'base-text'

Specify text to use as the first part of all links and references that ODS

creates in output files

BODY= 'file-specification' (suboption(s))

Open a markup family destination and specify the file that contains the

primary output that is created by the ODS statement

BOX_SIZING=(CONTENT_BOX | BORDER_BOX)

Specify how to measure the width of cells. Use to override the default value

of BOX_SIZING for a destination

CHARSET= character-set

Specify the character set to be generated in the META declaration for the

HTML output

CLOSE

Close the destination and the file that is associated with it

CODE= 'file-specification' <(suboption(s))>

Open the HTML destination and specify the file that contains relevant style

information

CODEBASE='string'

Create a file path that can be used by the GOPTIONS devices

CONTENTS= 'file-specification' <(suboption(s))>

Open the HTML destination and specify the file that contains a table of

contents for the output

CSSSTYLE= 'file-specification'<(media-type-1<…media-type-10>)>

Specify a cascading style sheet to apply to your output

DEVICE= device-driver

Specify a device for the output destination

DOM<="external-file">

Specify that the ODS document object model is written to the SAS log or to

an external file.

ENCODING= local-character-set-encoding

Override the encoding for input or output processing (transcodes) of external

files

EVENT=event-name (FILE= | FINISH | LABEL= | NAME= | START | STYLE= |

TARGET= | TEXT= | URL= )

Specify an event and the value for event variables that is associated with the

event

EXCLUDE exclusion(s) | ALL | NONE

Exclude output objects from the destination

FRAME= 'file-specification' <(suboption(s))>

Specify the file that integrates the table of contents, the page contents, and the

body file

GFOOTNOTE | NOGFOOTNOTE

Control the location where footnotes are printed in the graphics output

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