<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="5.0" xml:id="default.table.rules"> <refmeta> <refentrytitle>default.table.rules</refentrytitle> <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">string</refmiscinfo> </refmeta> <refnamediv> <refname>default.table.rules</refname> <refpurpose>The default column and row rules for tables using HTML markup</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <src:fragment xml:id="default.table.rules.frag"> <xsl:param name="default.table.rules">none</xsl:param> </src:fragment> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsection><info><title>Description</title></info> <para>Tables using HTML markup elements can use an attribute named <tag class="attribute">rules</tag> on the <tag>table</tag> or <tag>informaltable</tag> element to specify whether column and row border rules should be displayed. This parameter lets you specify a global default style for all HTML tables that don't otherwise have that attribute.</para> <para>These are the supported values:</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry><term>all</term> <listitem> <para>Rules will appear between all rows and columns.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term>rows</term> <listitem> <para>Rules will appear between rows only.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term>cols</term> <listitem> <para>Rules will appear between columns only.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term>groups</term> <listitem> <para>Rules will appear between row groups (thead, tfoot, tbody). No support for rules between column groups yet. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term>none</term> <listitem> <para>No rules. This is the default value. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> <para>The border after the last row and the border after the last column are not affected by this setting. Those borders are controlled by the <tag class="attribute">frame</tag> attribute on the table element. </para> </refsection> </refentry>