char

Table Cell Alignment Character (XHTML table model; OASIS table model)

Definition

See documentation for the HTML 4.0 (XHTML) table model or OASIS (CALS) Exchange table model (XML version), dependent upon the element involved.

Specification of 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 horizontally aligned based on the character named in this attribute, for example, a period for decimal alignment or an equal sign for alignment of variables.

Remarks

Alignment on a particular character requires that three attributes be set in the 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> Table Column (XHTML table model)
<colgroup> Table Column Group (XHTML table model)
<tbody> Table Body (XHTML table model)
<td> Table Data Cell (XHTML table model)
<tfoot> Table Footer (XHTML table model)
<th> Table Header Cell (XHTML table model)
<thead> Table Header (XHTML table model)
<tr> Table Row (XHTML table model)
Value Meaning
Data 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.