SAS 9.4 Output Delivery System, 3rd Edition

Chapter 11

Style Attributes

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833

Style Attributes Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833

Style Attributes Detailed Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844

Style Attribute Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877

Overview

Style attributes influence the characteristics of individual cells, tables, documents,

graphs, and HTML frames. Style attributes exist within style elements and are specified

by the STYLE statement or the CLASS statement. The default value for an attribute

depends on the style that is in use. For information about styles, style elements, and style

attributes, see “Understanding Styles, Style Elements, and Style Attributes” in Chapter

14 of SAS 9.4 Output Delivery System: Procedures Guide. For information about using

style attributes with ODS Statistical Graphics, see the chapter on controlling the

appearance of your graphics in SAS Graph Template Language: User's Guide.

Style attributes can be supplied by SAS or user-defined. Style attributes can be

referenced with a style reference. See “Understanding Style References ” in Chapter 14

of SAS 9.4 Output Delivery System: Procedures Guide and “style-reference” on page

881 for more information.

The implementation of an attribute depends on the ODS destination that formats the

output. When creating HTML output, the implementation of an attribute depends on the

browser that is used. For information about viewing the attributes in a style, see

“Viewing the Contents of a Style” in Chapter 14 of SAS 9.4 Output Delivery System:

Procedures Guide.

For a list of the values that style attributes can specify, see “Style Attribute Values” in

Chapter 14 of SAS 9.4 Output Delivery System: Procedures Guide. For a list of style

elements that you can specify style attributes in, see “Style Elements” on page 805.

Style Attributes Tables

For detailed information about these style attributes and their aliases, see “Detailed

Information for All Style Attributes” in Chapter 14 of SAS 9.4 Output Delivery System:

Procedures Guide.

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Table 11.1 Table of General Style Attributes

Attribute Task Destinations Affected Items

“ABSTRACT=ON | OFF” (p. 844) Specify whether styles

used in an HTML

document are used in CSS

style files

Markup family HTML

documents

“ACTIVELINKCOLOR=color” (p. 845) Specify the color that a link

in an HTML document

changes to after you click

it, but before the browser

opens that file

Markup family HTML

documents

“ASIS=ON | OFF” (p. 845) Specify how to handle

leading spaces and line

breaks in an HTML

document

Markup family,

printer family, and

RTF

Table cells and

HTML

documents

“BACKGROUNDCOLOR=color” (p. 845) Specify the color of the

background of tables, table

cells, or graphs

Markup family,

printer family, and

RTF

Table cells,

tables, graphs

“BACKGROUNDIMAGE="string"” (p. 845) Specify an image to use as

the background

Markup family,

PCL, PS, and

TAGSETS.RTF.

Table cells,

tables, graphs.

For

TAGSETS.RTF,

only applies to

the document.

“BACKGROUNDPOSITION=position” (p.

846)

Specify the position of the

background of the tables,

table cells, or graphs

Markup family,

printer family, and

RTF

Tables, graphs,

and HTML

documents

“BACKGROUNDREPEAT=option” (p. 847) Specify whether an image

is repeated horizontally,

vertically, both, or not

repeated

Markup family Individual tables

or table cells,

graphs

“BODYSCROLLBAR=YES | NO | AUTO” (p.

847)

Specify whether to put a

scroll bar in the frame that

references the body file

Markup family Individual frames

in HTML output

“BODYSIZE=dimension | dimension% | * ” (p.

847)

Specify the width of the

frame that displays the

body file in the HTML

frame file

Markup family Individual frames

in HTML output

“BORDERBOTTOMCOLOR=color ” (p.

847)

Specify the color of the

bottom border of the table

Markup family,

printer family,

RTF, and

Measured RTF

Bottom border of

a table or table

cell

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