The <entry> element defines a single cell in a table.
| Doctype | Content model |
|---|---|
| ditabase, topic, task, reference, concept | ( text data or ph or codeph or synph or filepath or msgph or userinput or systemoutput or b or u or i or tt or sup or sub or uicontrol or menucascade or term or xref or cite or q or boolean or state or keyword or option or parmname or apiname or cmdname or msgnum or varname or wintitle or tm or p or lq or note or dl or parml or ul or ol or sl or pre or codeblock or msgblock or screen or lines or fig or syntaxdiagram or imagemap or image or object or draft-comment or required-cleanup or fn or indextermref or indexterm or data or data-about or foreign or unknown) (any number) |
| map, bookmap | ( text data or ph or term or xref or cite or q or boolean or state or keyword or tm or p or lq or note or dl or ul or ol or sl or pre or lines or fig or image or object or draft-comment or required-cleanup or fn or indextermref or indexterm or data or data-about or foreign or unknown) (any number) |
| Doctype | Parents |
|---|---|
| bookmap, map, ditabase, topic, task, concept, reference, glossary | row |
- topic/entry
| Name | Description | Data Type | Default Value | Required? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| colname | Specifies the table column name in which an entry is found. | NMTOKEN | #IMPLIED | No |
| namest | Specifies the first logical column that is included in a horizontal span. | NMTOKEN | #IMPLIED | No |
| nameend | Specifies the last logical column that is included in a horizontal span. | NMTOKEN | #IMPLIED | No |
| morerows | Specifies the number of additional rows to add in a vertical span. | NMTOKEN | #IMPLIED | No |
| colsep | Column separator. A value of 0 indicates no separators; 1 indicates separators. | NMTOKEN | #IMPLIED | No |
| rowsep | Row separator. A value of 0 indicates no separators; 1 indicates separators. | NMTOKEN | #IMPLIED | No |
| align | Describes the alignment of text in a table column. Allowable values
are:
|
(left | right | center | justify | char | -dita-use-conref-target) | #IMPLIED | No |
| char | alignment character Default source for entry elements starting in this column. If character alignment is specified, the value is the single alignment character source for any implied char values for entry immediately in this column. A value of "" (the null string) means there is no aligning character. |
CDATA | #IMPLIED | No |
| charoff | horizontal offset of alignment character when align=char Default source for entry elements starting in this column. For character alignment on an entry in the column, horizontal character offset is the percent of the current column width to the left of the (left edge of the) alignment character. This value should be number, greater than 0 and less than or equal to 100. |
NMTOKEN | #IMPLIED | No |
| valign | Indicates the vertical alignment of text in a table entry (cell).
Allowable values are:
|
(top | bottom | middle | -dita-use-conref-target) | #IMPLIED | No |
| rev | Indicates revision level of an element. It is useful for flagging outputs based on revision. If no value is specified, but the attribute is specified on an ancestor within a map or within the related-links section, the value will inherit from the closest ancestor. | CDATA | #IMPLIED | No |
| %id-atts; (id, conref) | A set of related attributes, described at %id-atts; | parameter entity | PE not applicable | Not applicable |
| %localization-atts; (translate, xml:lang, dir) | A set of related attributes, described at %localization-atts;. | parameter entity | PE not applicable | Not applicable |
| %global-atts; (xtrf, xtrc) | A set of related attributes, described at %global-atts; | parameter entity | PE not applicable | Not applicable |
| class, outputclass | Common attributes described in Other common DITA attributes. |
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