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Word XHTML - Tables

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This is the fifth post by Zeyad Rajabi who owns the XHTML output from Word's new blogging feature. In earlier posts, Zeyad discussed a general overview of the XHTML, details on XHML compliance, how we map styles to semantics, and bullets and numbering. Today Zeyad is discussing the ways in which output tables.

Today I will be talking about tables in our blogging feature. Similarly to other supported Word features, our XHTML output for tables is not full fidelity. Word 2007 provides you with a rich editing experience that allows you to create a multitude of different types of tables. Our blogging feature only supports a handful of the possible types of tables that can be created in Word 2007.

Below is a table that enumerates all the table related HTML elements and the possible attributes and CSS properties that can be output for those elements.

 

HTML Elements HTML Attributes CSS Properties
table borderstyle border-collapsebackground
colgroup  -  -
col  style  width
tbody  valign  -
tr  style  background height
td colspan rowspanstyle valign background border-bottom border-left border-right border-top padding-bottom padding-leftpadding-rightpadding-top

 

I think the easiest introduction to our XHTML output for tables is to show some sample examples.

Example 1:

This example is the default table style for Word.

 One  Two
 Three  Four

 

Our XHTML output for the table can be found here.

Example 2:

This example shows shading applied to cells vs. rows.

February
M  T  W  T  F  S S
            1
2  3  4  5  6  7 8
9  10  11  12  13  14 15
16  17  18  19  20  21 22
23  24  25  26  27  28  

 

Our XHTML output for the table can be found here.

Example 3:

This example shows difference of fidelity when publishing from Word:

In Word In Browser

 

Our XHTML output for the table can be found here.

Example 4:

This example shows different borders being applied to different cells:

August 2006
Sun  

Mon

  

Tue

  

Wed

  

Thu

  

Fri

  

Sat

                   

1

  

2

                         
3  

4

  

5

  

6

  

7

  

8

  

9

                         
10  

11

  

12

  

13

  

14

  

15

  

16

                         
17  

18

  

19

  

20

  

21

  

22

  

23

                         
24  

25

  

26

  

27

  

28

  

29

  

30

                         
31                        

Our XHTML output for the table can be found here.

Comments are welcome

Comments

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2006
    How does the blogging feature in MS Office 2007 compare to the new Windows Live Writer beta that has just been released also by Microsoft ?
    Wouldn't it have been simpeler to add the Windows live writer to Office 2007 as a separate usefull tool ?

  • Anonymous
    August 15, 2006
    I hope you're gonna be trimming down the embedded styles in release version - thats a huge amount of redundant code you're putting inline..  not working with intranets anymore ;)

  • Anonymous
    August 15, 2006
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    September 15, 2006
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