td Element

Author-it XML Format

Description

The td element represents a cell in a table. This element may contain p elements and table elements.

Attributes

Attribute Name

Optional

Data Type

width

No

Integer >= 0. Units in twips*

borders

Yes

String. 0 = none, 15 = thin, 30 = medium, 45 = thick. *

bordercolors

Yes

String. Units in OLE color. **

bgcolor

Yes

Integer >= 0. Units in OLE color.

rowspan

Yes

Integer > 0

colspan

Yes

Integer > 0

shading

Yes

Integer 0 to 100

* Twentieth of a point. This measurement is dependent on screen resolution. Generally there are 15 twips per pixel.

** An integer representing the OLE Color. In the .NET framework you can use Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromOLE to convert this. Either a single number when all four borders are the same, or 4 comma separated numbers representing left, right, top, bottom borders.

Parent Element

table

Children

Element

Optional

Occurs

p

Yes

Zero to many times

table

Yes

Zero to many times

Values

None

Sample XML

<tr rowheight="0">
- <td width="1080" bordercolors="65793">
<p id="3">one</p>
</td>
- <td width="1170" borders="45" bordercolors="65793">
<p id="3">two</p>
</td>
</tr>