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Tag Definition: blockSpan

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Attributes

Name

Required?

Default_Value

Values

start

implied

None

stop

implied

None

Can contain
EMPTY

Purpose

This allows you to merge a range of table cells provided start and end grid coordinates.

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">
        <lineStyle kind="GRID" colorName="black"/>
        <blockSpan start="0,0" stop="0,1"/>
    </blockTableStyle>
</stylesheet>
<story>
    <blockTable style="table1">
        <tr><td>Table style example</td><td>Table style example</td></tr>
        <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

<document> ➔ <stylesheet> ➔ <blockTableStyle> ➔ <blockSpan>