XSL-FO Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Table of Rows and Columns

∟Table Row Borders and Column Borders

This section provides a tutorial example on how to create tables with row borders and column borders. Border attributes can be specified at table-row and table-column formatting objects.

If you want to have borders on rows only in a table, you can specify border attributes at "table-row" formatting objects.

If you want to have borders on columns only in a table, you can add "table-column" formatting objects with border attributes.

Here is my tutorial example, Table-with-Border-on-Rows-Columns.fo, with two "table" formatting objects:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Table-with-Border-on-Rows-Columns.fo
 - Copyright (c) 2006 HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
-->
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
 <fo:layout-master-set>
  <fo:simple-page-master master-name="page" 
   margin="0.1in" page-height="5in" page-width="5in">
   <fo:region-body region-name="body" background-color="#eeffff"/>
  </fo:simple-page-master>
 </fo:layout-master-set>
 <fo:page-sequence master-reference="page">
  <fo:flow flow-name="body">
<fo:block margin-top="12pt">Table with row borders:</fo:block>
<fo:table>
 <fo:table-body>
  <fo:table-row border-width="4px" border-style="solid">
   <fo:table-cell background-color="#ffccff" padding="8pt">
    <fo:block>?</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
   <fo:table-cell background-color="#ffccff" padding="8pt">
    <fo:block>U+2602</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
   <fo:table-cell background-color="#ffccff" padding="8pt">
    <fo:block>Umbrella</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
  </fo:table-row>
  <fo:table-row border-width="4px" border-style="solid">
   <fo:table-cell background-color="#ffccff" padding="8pt">
    <fo:block>?</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
   <fo:table-cell background-color="#ffccff" padding="8pt">
    <fo:block>U+260E</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
   <fo:table-cell background-color="#ffccff" padding="8pt">
    <fo:block>Telephone</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
  </fo:table-row>
 </fo:table-body>
</fo:table>
<fo:block margin-top="12pt">Table with column borders:</fo:block>
<fo:table>
 <fo:table-column border-width="4px" border-style="solid"/>
 <fo:table-column border-width="4px" border-style="solid"/>
 <fo:table-column border-width="4px" border-style="solid"/>
 <fo:table-body>
  <fo:table-row>
   <fo:table-cell 
    padding="8pt"><fo:block>?</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
   <fo:table-cell 
    padding="8pt"><fo:block>U+262E</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
   <fo:table-cell 
    padding="8pt"><fo:block>Peace</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
  </fo:table-row>
  <fo:table-row>
   <fo:table-cell 
    padding="8pt"><fo:block>?</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
   <fo:table-cell 
    padding="8pt"><fo:block>U+262F</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
   <fo:table-cell 
    padding="8pt"><fo:block>Yin Yang</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
  </fo:table-row>
 </fo:table-body>
</fo:table>
  </fo:flow>
 </fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>

If you process this example XSL-FO document with Apache FOP, you will see two tables: one with row borders and one with column borders:

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of XSL-FO

 Apache™ FOP (Formatting Objects Processor)

 RenderX XEP as an XSL-FO Tool

 Introduction of Area Model

 XSL-FO Document Basics and Examples

 Page Layout Masters

 Block-Level Formatting Objects

 Inline-Level Formatting Objects

 Including Graphics in XSL-FO document

►Table of Rows and Columns

 Table Formatting Object Tree

 Table Cell Borders Collapsed and Separated

►Table Row Borders and Column Borders

 Table Column Headers and Footers

 Table and Column Width Control

 Table Column and Row Merge or Span

 Table with Caption

 List, Item, Label, and Body

 Floating Blocks - "float" and "footnote"

 Hyperlinks, Table of Contents and Indexes

 Headers and Footers using "static-content"

 Font Attributes and Font Families

 Apache FOP Font Configurations

 RenderX XEP Font Configurations

 Converting HTML to PDF

 References

 Full Version in PDF/ePUB

Table Row Borders and Column Borders - Updated in 2024, by Herong Yang