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.)

Used on Elements: <td>, <th>

ValueMeaning
Counting numberHow many column widths this cell will span, for example, “3”.
Default value 1 (Spans 1 column)

Example 

...
<table rules="all" frame="box" cellpadding="5">
 <colgroup>
  <col/>
  <col/>
  <col/>
  <col/>
  <col/>
  <col/>
 </colgroup>
 <thead>
  <tr>
   <th>Representation</th>
   <th>Primitives</th>
   <th><inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$PC$</tex-math></inline-formula></th>
   <th><inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$X$</tex-math></inline-formula></th>
   <th><inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathbf{Y}$</tex-math></inline-formula></th>
   <th>Finite fields</th>
  </tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <td>Uncompressed</td>
   <td>EC2OSPXY<break/>OS2ECPXY</td>
   <td>0000 0100</td>
   <td><inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$x_{P}$</tex-math></inline-formula></td>
   <td><inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$y_{P}$</tex-math></inline-formula></td>
   <td>All</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>...</tr>
  <tr>
   <td colspan="6">
    <non-normative-note>
     <label>NOTE 1&#x2014;</label>
     <p>The first four bits of the first octet <inline-formula
      ><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$PC$</tex-math></inline-formula>
      ... but these formats would not conform with the ones defined 
      in this subclause.</p>
    </non-normative-note>
    <non-normative-note>
     <label>NOTE 2&#x2014;</label>
     <p>The various representations ... that handles all representations.</p>
    </non-normative-note>
   </td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>
...

NISO STS 1.0 Tag Suite Components

Version of October 2017

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