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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+)))

### Attributes

Common attributes

Name | Type | Default
tocentry | CDATA | None
shortentry | CDATA | None
tabstyle | CDATA | None
orient |
Enumeration:
land
port
| None
label | CDATA | None
colsep | CDATA | None
frame |
Enumeration:
all
bottom
none
sides
top
topbot
| None
pgwide | CDATA | None
rowsep | 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`, `tip`, `warning`.

### Children

The following elements occur in table: `blockinfo`, `graphic`, `indexterm`, `mediaobject`, `textobject`, `tgroup`, `title`, `titleabbrev`.

## 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.

## 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 |  | tbody

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