APA Journal Archive Tag Library

align

Horizontal Alignment (XHTML table model)

See W3C documentation for the XHTML table model.

Sets the horizontal (line) alignment inside a table cell or paragraph

Usage

In tables, the @align attribute is used in two different ways. 1) It specifies the horizontal alignment for the entire cell (such as “center” or “justify”. 2) It is used for aligning values in table cells on a particular character within the cell, commonly a decimal point. Alignment on a particular character requires that three attributes be set in the XML document:

  1. The @align attribute value is set to the word “char”.
  2. The @char attribute value is set to the actual character to use for the aligning, for example to align on a decimal point, the “.” character.
  3. The @charoff attribute value is set to the percent of the current column width to be placed to the left of the (left edge of the) alignment character, for example, “30”.

In Paragraph, the attribute value specifies the horizontal alignment for the paragraph.

Attribute Values

In Element

<p>
Value Meaning
center Center align the paragraph contents
justify Fully justify paragraph contents (right and left justification)
left Left align paragraph contents
right Right align paragraph contents
Default value: left

In Elements

<col>, <colgroup>, <tbody>, <td>, <tfoot>, <th>, <thead>, <tr>
Value Meaning
center Center align the cell contents
char Align the text on the character identified with the @char attribute
justify Fully justify cell contents (right and left justification)
left Left justify cell contents
right Right justify cell contents
Restriction: This attribute may be specified if the element is used.

APA Journal Archive Tag Library

Version of July 22, 2013