Using the <tgroup> tag

Description

<table frame="all" id="budgettable1">
  <name>Budget - Comparison by year</name>
  <tgroup cols="4" align="left" colsep="1" 
	  rowsep="1">
    <colspec colnum="1" colname="c1"/>
    <colspec colnum="2" colname="c2"/>
    <colspec colnum="3" colname="c3"/>
    <colspec colnum="4" colname="c4"/>
    <thead valign="top">
      <row>
	<entry morerows="1" 
	       align="center">Item</entry>
	<entry namest="c2" nameend="c4" 
	       align="center">Year</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
	<entry align="center">1998</entry>
	<entry align="center">1999</entry>
	<entry align="center">2000</entry>
      </row>
    </thead>
    <tbody valign="top">
      <row>
	<entry>Income</entry>
	<entry>12,293</entry>
	<entry>12,398</entry>
	<entry>14,298</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
	<entry>Expenditure</entry>
	<entry>293</entry>
	<entry>398</entry>
	<entry>298</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
	<entry>Surplus</entry>
	<entry>12000</entry>
	<entry>12000</entry>
	<entry>14000</entry>
      </row>
    </tbody>
  </tgroup>
</table>
	

Attributes(what's this?)

• cols (required): Number of columns in the tgroup. Default comes from the tabstyle attribute if used, otherwise it is 1.
• tgroupstyle (optional): An identifier for a table style (text).
• colsep (optional): Sets whether the internal column rulings are displayed or not.
  Possible values:
  • 0 - Do not display column rulings.
  • any other number - Display column rulings.
  Default comes from the tgroupstyle attribute if used, otherwise it is 1.
• rowsep (optional): Sets whether the internal row rulings are displayed or not.
  Possible values:
  • 0 - Do not display row rulings.
  • any other number - Display row rulings.
  Default comes from the tgroupstyle attribute if used, otherwise it is 1.
• align (optional): Sets how the text will be aligned.
  Possible values:
  • left - Left aligned.
  • right - Right aligned.
  • center - Center aligned.
  • justify - Right and left aligned.
  • char - Aligns to the leftmost occurrence of the value of the char attribute.
  Default uses the value from the tgroupstyle attribute if it exists, otherwise uses left.
• char (optional): The character used in the align attribute. Default uses value from the tgroupstyle attribute if it exists, otherwise uses "".
• charoff (optional): The pertcentage of the column width to the left of the char used in the align attribute. Default uses value from the tgroupstyle attribute if it exists, otherwise it is "50".
• id (optional): A unique identifier, whose value must begin with a letter and contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores, colons, and/or periods (no spaces).

Children(what's this?)

colspec (zero or more), spanspec (zero or more), thead (zero or one), tfoot (zero or one), tbody (one, required)

Parents(what's this?)

table