Applying the STYLE= Option

Enhancing HTML Tabular Reports

Applying the STYLE= Option

In the lesson Producing HTML Output, you learned to specify styles for HTML output, applying the STYLE= option to change the look of your output. Although that lesson discussed the PRINT procedure, the STYLE= option also works with PROC TABULATE:

ods listing close; ods html path='c:\data'(url=none) body='table.html' style=brick; proc tabulate data=clinic.admit; var fee; class sex; table sex all,fee; run; ods html close; ods listing;

Fee

Sum

Sex 1418.35

F

M 1268.60

All 2686.95

ods listing close; ods html path='c:\data'(url=none) body='table.html' style=brown; proc tabulate data=clinic.admit; var fee; class sex; table sex all,fee; run; ods html close; ods listing;

Fee

Sum

Sex 1418.35

F

M 1268.60

All 2686.95

When you specify the STYLE= option in an ODS HTML statement, the specified style controls the overall appearance of your output. But you can use the STYLE= option within PROC TABULATE to change the appearance of individual rows, columns, and cells.

General form, STYLE= option within PROC TABULATE:

STYLE=<style-name> <<parent>>
{<attribute-1=value> <...attribute-n=value>}

where

style-name refers to a predefined style
<parent> applies the style attributes of the nesting cell
attribute specifies a style attribute to alter, such as

foreground font_face

background font_size

backgroundimage font_style

flyover font_weight

You can shorten the keyword style to s in your programs: s={background=yellow}

Also, you can use square brackets [ ] instead of curly braces to enclose attributes and values:

s=[background=cyan]

Because you can apply the STYLE= option to any part of your table, it provides a great amount of creative control.