Table Row Attributes - background color

[Boreas]

Hello,

I was wondering if there is an attribute that can be set on a row to add a background color to that specific row? The table heading row does that, but I understand that we cannot use more than one tableheading row in a table.
We have long tables. We need the table heading row, but we would also need to add a background color to some of the rows. I was hoping to be able to use something like BGCOLOR="#99CCFF", or something similar.

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 <strow BGCOLOR="#99CCFF">

     <stentry/>

     <stentry/>

</strow>. 

But apparently it is not supported. oXygen givens me the red line!

Is there a simple way to achieve this result this?

Kind regards

Carole

[Radu]

Hi Carole,

You would need some kind of output customization for this.
For example in the DITA content you could set the color as an output class attribute:

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<strow outputclass="#99CCFF">

.....

If you want this for XHTML-based output you could have a custom CSS which matches the row and sets a background color to it.

If you want this for the PDF output you would need a PDF customization folder which would have an XSLT stylesheet overriding the template which matches a table row.
On the Oxygen XML Blog I explained a couple of weeks ago how to have table rows with alternating colors in the PDF output:

http://blog.oxygenxml.com/2015/06/dita- ... -with.html

Regards,
Radu

[Boreas]

Hello,

your posts gave me the pointers to achieve what I wanted.
I have a plugin and I don't use a customisation folder.

So in tables-attr.xsl I added under:

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<xsl:attribute-set name="tbody.row">

  </xsl:attribute-set>

This

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 <!--new attribute set to color a table row-->

 <xsl:attribute-set name="color" use-attribute-sets="tbody.row">

         <xsl:attribute name="background-color">#FAFAD2</xsl:attribute>

        <xsl:attribute name="border-left-width">15pt</xsl:attribute>

      </xsl:attribute-set>

In tables.xsl I added a condition based on an outputclass value.

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<!-- New condition to color a table row-->

    

    <xsl:template match="*[contains(@class, ' topic/tbody ')]/*[contains(@class, ' topic/row ')]">

        <xsl:choose>

            <xsl:when test="contains(@outputclass, 'color')">  

                <fo:table-row xsl:use-attribute-sets="color">

                    <xsl:call-template name="commonattributes"/>

                    <xsl:apply-templates/>

                </fo:table-row>

            </xsl:when>

        <xsl:otherwise>

            <fo:table-row xsl:use-attribute-sets="tbody.row">

            <xsl:call-template name="commonattributes"/>

            <xsl:apply-templates/>

            </fo:table-row>

        </xsl:otherwise>

        </xsl:choose>

    </xsl:template>

then in my table, for each row I whant to color I add:
<row outputclass="color">

This way I can pick the rows I want to color.
Best regards.
Carole