Journal Publishing Tag Library NISO JATS Draft Version 1.1d2

colspan

Column Span (NISO JATS table model)

Table attribute used to request horizontal spanning of more than one column. (This attribute is based on and intended to be converted easily to the XHMTL colspan attribute.)

Remarks

To specify horizontal spanning, this attribute contains the number of columns that a table cell will span. (The table cell will be tagged with a <td> or <th> element.)

With these Elements

<td>
<th>
Value Meaning
Counting number How many column widths this cell will span, for example, “3”.
Default value: 1 (Spans 1 column)

Example 


...
<tr>
<th/>
<th colspan="3" align="center" rowspan="1">Institutional
care</th>
<th align="left"/>
<th colspan="2" align="center" rowspan="1">&#x2003;Bed use (days)</th>
</tr>
...

Journal Publishing Tag Library NISO JATS Draft Version 1.1d2

Version of December 2014

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