Tag Definition: blockBackground

Generated by rlextra version 4.3.0a1

Attributes

Name	Required?	Default_Value	Values
colorName	implied	None
colorsByCol	implied	None
colorsByRow	implied	None
start	implied	None
stop	implied	None
Can contain EMPTY

Purpose

This sets the color to be used for the background for a block of cells in your table.

Check out our docs page on how this works in the open source for reference.

Example usage

<stylesheet>
    <blockTableStyle id="table1" spaceAfter="0.5 cm">
        <blockBackground colorName="yellow" start="0,0" stop="-1,-1"/>
    </blockTableStyle>
</stylesheet>
<story>
    <blockTable style="table1">
        <tr><td>Table style example</td></tr>
    </blockTable>
</story>

Note: Only relevant sections are used in this snippet. Some tags were not included. See some of our samples for further insight of how you may go about setting up a full document using rml.

Example of nesting path from the parent tags to the current tag