The colspec element contains a column specification for a table, including assigning a column name and number, cell content alignment, and column width.
Content models
See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.
Inheritance
- topic/colspec
Example
See table.
Attributes
The following attributes are available on this element: Universal attribute group (without the Metadata attribute group), base from the Metadata attribute group, outputclass, and the attributes defined below. This element also uses align, char, charoff, colsep, rowsep, and rowheader from Complex-table attribute group.
- colnum
- Indicates the number of a column in the table, counting from the first logical column to the last column.
- colname
- Specifies a name for the column defined by this element. The entry element can use colname to refer to the name of this column.
- colwidth
- Describes the column width.