Journal Publishing Tag Library NISO JATS Draft Version 1.1d2

rowspan

Row Span (NISO JATS table model)

Table attribute used to request vertical spanning by naming the number of rows a cell spans in a vertical span. (This attribute is based on and intended to be converted easily to the XHMTL rowspan attribute.)

Remarks

To specify vertical spanning, this attribute contains the number of rows 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
A counting number How many rows this cell will span vertically, for example, “3”.
Default value: 1 (Span 1 row)

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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