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# table

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table — A formal table in a document

## Synopsis

### Content Model

    table ::=
    (((blockinfo?,
       (title,titleabbrev?),
       (indexterm)*,
       textobject*,
       (graphic+|mediaobject+|tgroup+))|
      (caption,
       (col*|colgroup*),
       thead?,tfoot?,
       (tbody+|tr+))))

### Attributes

Common attributes

Name | Type | Default
rowsep | CDATA | None
ondblclick | CDATA | None
floatstyle | CDATA | None
onkeydown | CDATA | None
onkeyup | CDATA | None
onmouseup | CDATA | None
onmouseover | CDATA | None
align |
Enumeration:
center
left
right
| None
pgwide | CDATA | None
orient |
Enumeration:
land
port
| None
onkeypress | CDATA | None
onmousedown | CDATA | None
onclick | CDATA | None
title | CDATA | None
class | CDATA | None
label | CDATA | None
width | CDATA | None
frame |
Enumeration:
above
all
below
border
bottom
box
hsides
lhs
none
rhs
sides
top
topbot
void
vsides
| None
rules | CDATA | None
summary | CDATA | None
bgcolor | CDATA | None
tabstyle | CDATA | None
cellspacing | CDATA | None
colsep | CDATA | None
shortentry | CDATA | None
onmouseout | CDATA | None
onmousemove | CDATA | None
style | CDATA | None
xml:lang | NMTOKEN | None
border | CDATA | None
rowheader |
Enumeration:
firstcol
norowheader
| None
cellpadding | CDATA | None
tocentry | CDATA | None

## Description

The `Table` element identifies a formal table. DocBook uses the CALS table model, which describes tables geometrically using rows, columns, and cells.

Tables may include column headers and footers, but there is no provision for row headers.

### Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. This element is expected to obey the semantics of the CALS Table Model Document Type Definition, as specified by OASIS Technical Memorandum TM 9502:1995 .

### Future Changes

The OASIS Exchange Table Model will replace the full OASIS Table Model.

### Parents

These elements contain table: `answer`, `appendix`, `article`, `bibliodiv`, `bibliography`, `blockquote`, `callout`, `caution`, `chapter`, `constraintdef`, `glossary`, `glossdef`, `glossdiv`, `important`, `index`, `listitem`, `msgexplan`, `msgtext`, `note`, `para`, `partintro`, `preface`, `procedure`, `qandadiv`, `qandaset`, `question`, `refsect1`, `refsect2`, `refsect3`, `refsection`, `refsynopsisdiv`, `revdescription`, `sect1`, `sect2`, `sect3`, `sect4`, `sect5`, `section`, `setindex`, `sidebar`, `simplesect`, `step`, `taskprerequisites`, `taskrelated`, `tasksummary`, `td`, `th`, `tip`, `warning`.

### Children

The following elements occur in table: `blockinfo`, `caption`, `col`, `colgroup`, `graphic`, `indexterm`, `mediaobject`, `tbody`, `textobject`, `tfoot`, `tgroup`, `thead`, `title`, `titleabbrev`, `tr`.

## CALS Attributes

colsep

  If `ColSep` has the value 1 (true), then a rule will be drawn to the right of all columns in this table. A value of 0 (false) suppresses the rule. The rule to the right of the last column in the table is controlled by the `Frame` attribute, not the `ColSep`.

frame

  `Frame` specifies how the table is to be framed:

  Value | Meaning
  --- | ---
  `all` | Frame all four sides of the table. In some environments with limited control over table border formatting, such as HTML, this may imply additional borders.
  `bottom` | Frame only the bottom of the table.
  `none` | Place no border on the table. In some environments with limited control over table border formatting, such as HTML, this may disable other borders as well.
  `sides` | Frame the left and right sides of the table.
  `top` | Frame the top of the table.
  `topbot` | Frame the top and bottom of the table.

  There is no way to obtain a border on only the starting edge (left, in left-to-right writing systems) of the table.

label

  `Label` specifies an identifying string for presentation purposes.

  Generally, an explicit `Label` attribute is used only if the processing system is incapable of generating the label automatically. If present, the `Label` is normative; it will used even if the processing system is capable of automatic labelling.

orient

  `Orient` specifies the orientation of the `Table`. An orientation of `Port` is the “upright”, the same orientation as the rest of the text flow. An orientation of `Land` is 90 degrees counterclockwise from the upright orientation.

pgwide

  If `Pgwide` has the value 0 (false), then the `Table` is rendered in the current text flow (with flow column width). A value of 1 (true) specifies that the table should be rendered across the full text page.

rowsep

  If `RowSep` has the value 1 (true), then a rule will be drawn below all the rows in the `Table` (unless other, interior elements, suppress some or all of the rules). A value of 0 (false) suppresses the rule. The rule below the last row in the table is controlled by the `Frame` attribute and the `RowSep` of the last row is ignored.

shortentry

  If `ShortEntry` has the value 1 (true), then the `Table`'s `TitleAbbrev` will be used in the `LoT`, `Index`, etc. A value of 0 (false) indicates that the full `Title` should be used in those places.

tabstyle

  `TabStyle` holds the name of a table style defined in a stylesheet (e.g., a FOSI) that will be used to process this document.

tocentry

  If `ToCEntry` has the value 1 (true), then the `Table` will appear in a generated List of Tables. The default value of 0 (false) indicates that it will not.

## HTML Attributes

This element has the HTML event attributes.

align

  TBD.

bgcolor

  TBD.

border

  TBD.

cellpadding

  TBD.

cellspacing

  TBD.

class

  TBD.

frame

  TBD.

label

  TBD.

rules

  Controls the rules used inside the table. The legal values are “none”, “groups”, “rows”, “cols”, and “all”. The DTD does not enforce this constraint because it introduces a conflict in attribute values that violates an SGML constraint.

shortentry

  TBD.

summary

  TBD.

tabstyle

  TBD.

title

  TBD.

## See Also

`colspec`, `entry`, `entrytbl`, `equation`, `example`, `figure`, `informalequation`, `informalexample`, `informalfigure`, `informaltable`, `row`, `spanspec`, `tbody`, `tfoot`, `tgroup`, `thead`.

## Examples

    <!DOCTYPE table PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
              "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
    <table frame='all'><title>Sample Table</title>
    <tgroup cols='5' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
    <colspec colname='c1'/>
    <colspec colname='c2'/>
    <colspec colname='c3'/>
    <colspec colnum='5' colname='c5'/>
    <thead>
    <row>
      <entry namest="c1" nameend="c2" align="center">Horizontal Span</entry>
      <entry>a3</entry>
      <entry>a4</entry>
      <entry>a5</entry>
    </row>
    </thead>
    <tfoot>
    <row>
      <entry>f1</entry>
      <entry>f2</entry>
      <entry>f3</entry>
      <entry>f4</entry>
      <entry>f5</entry>
    </row>
    </tfoot>
    <tbody>
    <row>
      <entry>b1</entry>
      <entry>b2</entry>
      <entry>b3</entry>
      <entry>b4</entry>
      <entry morerows='1' valign='middle'><para>  <!-- Pernicous Mixed Content -->
      Vertical Span</para></entry>
    </row>
    <row>
      <entry>c1</entry>
      <entry namest="c2" nameend="c3" align='center' morerows='1' valign='bottom'>Span Both</entry>
      <entry>c4</entry>
    </row>
    <row>
      <entry>d1</entry>
      <entry>d4</entry>
      <entry>d5</entry>
    </row>
    </tbody>
    </tgroup>
    </table>

Table 2. Sample Table

Horizontal Span | a3 | a4 | a5
--- | --- | --- | ---
f1 | f2 | f3 | f4 | f5
b1 | b2 | b3 | b4 | Vertical Span
c1 | Span Both | c4
d1 | d4 | d5

systemitem |  | task

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