col Element

 

Module

The col element is declared by the XHTML 1.1 Tables Module but is not present in the *W3C XHTML 1.1 Basic Tables Module

Elements in the Tables Module are:
table | caption | col | colgroup | thead | tfoot | tbody | tr | th | td

Description

For more information on the col element, see the associated colgroup element.

#REQUIRED Attributes

There are no #REQUIRED attributes on the col element.

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Specific Attributes

From the Tables Module - the Element's own Module

align [ type Enumeration (left | center | right | justify | char) ]

Horizontal alignment of text within the cells of the spanned columns.
Note: Not supported on col and colgroup by several major user agents, notably Firefox

char [ type Character ]

When the align attribute is set to "char", this specifies a single character at which to align the contents of all cells in the spanned columns
Note: User agents are not obliged to support this attribute (in fact I don't know of any which do)

charoff [ type Length ]

Offset within each cell of the first occurrence of the alignment character char (again, I don't know of any user agents which support this attribute)

span [ type Number - default="1" ]

Number of columns spanned by the col element

valign [ type Enumeration (top | middle | bottom | baseline) ]

Vertical alignment of text within the cells of the spanned columns.
Note: Not supported on col and colgroup by several major user agents, notably Firefox

width [ type MultiLength ]

Width of each spanned column in any of the MultiLength formats

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Common Attributes

From the Core Attribute Collection

class [ type NMTOKENS ]

One or more space separated classes

id [ type ID ]

A unique identifier for the element

style [ type CDATA ], from the Style Attribute Module (deprecated)

Element-specific styles

title [ type Text ]

Descriptive title for the element (in some user agents this may appear as a "tooltip" when the mouse hovers over the element)

xmlns [ type URI - #FIXED 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' ]

XML namespace

From the I18N Attribute Collection

dir [ type Enumeration (ltr | rtl) ], from the Bi-directional Text Module

Left-to-right or right-to-left directionality

xml:lang [ type LanguageCode ]

A language code for the element

From the Events Attribute Collection

All attributes in the Events Attribute Collection are supported:
onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup

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Content Model

The Content Model for the col element is:

EMPTY

See Content Model & Nesting for information about Content Model syntax and Nesting Groups.

Valid children of col

This element is empty and may have no children.

Valid parents of col

• From the Tables Module: colgroup, table