COLGROUP vertical alignment in cells XHTML 1.01 Strict

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colgroup

Purpose

table column group

Description

COLGROUP is used to define columns in a TABLE.

Start tag

Required <colgroup>

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
align	( left \| center \| right \| justify \| char )	#IMPLIED	horizontal alignment of cell contents
char	CDATA	#IMPLIED	alignment char, e.g. char=':'; a single character as per XML specification which defines a character as an atomic unit of text as specified by ISO/IEC 10646 [ISO/IEC 10646] (see also [ISO/IEC 10646-2000])
charoff	CDATA	#IMPLIED	offset for alignment char; nn for pixels or nn% for percentage length; horizontal alignment in cells
class	CDATA	#IMPLIED	space-separated list of classes
dir	( ltr \| rtl )	#IMPLIED	direction for weak/neutral text
id	ID	#IMPLIED	document-wide unique id
lang	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	language code (backwards compatible); language code as RFC3066
onclick	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was clicked; script expression
ondblclick	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was double clicked; script expression
onkeydown	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a key was pressed down; script expression
onkeypress	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a key was pressed and released; script expression
onkeyup	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a key was released; script expression
onmousedown	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was pressed down; script expression
onmousemove	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer was moved within; script expression
onmouseout	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer was moved away; script expression
onmouseover	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer was moved onto; script expression
onmouseup	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was released; script expression
span	CDATA	"1"	one or more digits; default number of columns in group
style	CDATA	#IMPLIED	associated style info; style sheet data
title	CDATA	#IMPLIED	advisory title; text used for titles
valign	( top \| middle \| bottom \| baseline )	#IMPLIED	vertical alignment attributes for cell contents; vertical alignment in cells
width	CDATA	#IMPLIED	pixel, percentage, or relative; default width for enclosed COLs
xml:lang	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	language code (as per XML 1.0 spec); language code as RFC3066

Content

( col )*

End tag

Required </colgroup>

Referenced in

table

Example

Source

Appearance

<table frame="box" rules="groups" summary="The Results of the Big XHTML Playoffs.">
<caption>The XHTML Playoffs</caption>
<colgroup align="center">
<col />
<col style="background-color: #FFFFAA;" />
<col style="background-color: #BDFCC9;" /></colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Game</th>
<th>Elements</th>
<th>Entities</th></tr></thead>
<tfoot style="background-color: #05FFFF;">
<tr>
<td colspan="3">Entities Win!</td></tr></tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>0</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>4</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>8</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>9</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>1</td></tr></tbody></table>

The XHTML Playoffs
Game	Elements	Entities
Entities Win!
1	3	0
2	5	4
3	2	8
4	7	9
5	0	1