APA Journal Archive Tag Library

char

Table Cell Alignment Character (XHTML table model)

See W3C documentation for the XHTML table model.

The character to be used in horizontal alignment of the contents of an entry in a table. The content of a table data or table header element is to be aligned horizontally based on the character named in this attribute, for example, alignment on a period for decimal alignment or on an equal sign for alignment of variables.

Remarks

Horizontal 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, a decimal point, “.”.
  3. The @charoff attribute value is set to the percent of the current column width to the left of the (left edge of the) alignment character, for example, “30”.

Attribute Values

In Elements

<col>, <colgroup>, <tbody>, <td>, <tfoot>, <th>, <thead>, <tr>
Value Meaning
Text, numbers, or special characters When used in conjunction with align="char", the contents of the table entry are aligned relative to the character specified by this attribute.
Restriction: This attribute may be specified if the element is used.

APA Journal Archive Tag Library

Version of July 22, 2013