DocumentID: ECMA-376/Part3/2.5.1 Title: ECMA-376, Part3: 2.5.1 Introduction Extracted-From: ECMA-376 Office Open XML File Formats, 1st Edition / December 2006 Warning: Coverted to HTML format by a script known to have bugs
Tables in WordprocessingML are defined via the tbl element, which is analogous to the HTML <table> tag. The table element specifies the location of a table present in the document.
A tbl element has two elements that define its properties: tblPr, which defines the set of table-wide properties (such as style and width), and tblGrid, which defines the grid layout of the table. A tbl element can also contain an arbitrary non-zero number of rows, where each row is specified with a tr element. Each tr element can contain an arbitrary non-zero number of cells, where each cell is specified with a tc element.
Consider an empty one-cell table (i.e.,; a table with one row, one column) and 1 point borders on all sides:
This table is represented by the following WordprocessingML:
<w:tbl>
<w:tblPr>
<w:tblW w:w="5000" w:type="pct"/>
<w:tblBorders>
<w:top w:val="single" w:sz="4" w:space="0" w:color="auto"/>
<w:left w:val="single" w:sz="4 w:space="0" w:color="auto"/>
<w:bottom w:val="single" w:sz="4" w:space="0" w:color="auto"/>
<w:right w:val="single" w:sz="4" w:space="0" w:color="auto"/>
</w:tblBorders>
</w:tblPr>
<w:tblGrid>
<w:gridCol w:w="10296"/>
</w:tblGrid>
<w:tr>
<w:tc>
<w:tcPr>
<w:tcW w:w="0" w:type="auto"/>
</w:tcPr>
<w:p/>
</w:tc>
</w:tr>
</w:tbl>
This table specifies table-wide properties of 100% of page width (tblW's type attribute specifies how the width value in the w attribute shall be interpreted--pct specifies a measurement of fiftieths of a percent) and the set of table borders (tblBorders), the table grid which defines a set of shared vertical edges within the table (discussed later), and a single row.