Name

th — A table header entry in an HTML table

Synopsis

th ::= ((text | Bibliography inlines | Error inlines | Graphic inlines | GUI inlines | Indexing inlines | Keyboard inlines | Linking inlines | Markup inlines | Math inlines | Object-oriented programming inlines | Operating system inlines | Product inlines | Programming inlines | Publishing inlines | Technical inlines | Ubiquitous inlines)* | (annotation | bridgehead | remark | revhistory | Indexing inlines | Admonition elements | Formal elements | Graphic elements | Informal elements | List elements | Paragraph elements | Publishing elements | Synopsis elements | Technical elements | Verbatim elements)*)

Attribute synopsis

Attributes:

  • abbr

  • axis

  • headers

  • scope (enumeration) = “row” | “col” | “rowgroup” | “colgroup”

  • rowspan (nonNegativeInteger)

  • colspan (nonNegativeInteger)

  • align (enumeration) = “left” | “center” | “right” | “justify” | “char”

  • char

  • charoff (enumeration) = xsd:integer | xsd:string (Pattern: “[0–9]+%”)

  • valign (enumeration) = “top” | “middle” | “bottom” | “baseline”

Description

Identifies a “head” entry in an HTML table.

Processing expectations

This element is expected to obey the semantics described in Tables, as specified in XHTML 1.0 [XHTML].

Attributes

abbr

Provides an abbreviated form of the cell’s content and may be rendered by user agents when appropriate in place of the cell’s content. Abbreviated names should be short since user agents may render them repeatedly. For instance, speech synthesizers may render the abbreviated headers ...

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