This is the fifth post by Zeyad Rajabi who owns the XHTML output from Word's new blogging feature. In earlier posts, Zeyad discussed a general overview of the XHTML, details on XHML compliance, how we map styles to semantics, and bullets and numbering. Today Zeyad is discussing the ways in which output tables.

Today I will be talking about tables in our blogging feature. Similarly to other supported Word features, our XHTML output for tables is not full fidelity. Word 2007 provides you with a rich editing experience that allows you to create a multitude of different types of tables. Our blogging feature only supports a handful of the possible types of tables that can be created in Word 2007.

Below is a table that enumerates all the table related HTML elements and the possible attributes and CSS properties that can be output for those elements.

I think the easiest introduction to our XHTML output for tables is to show some sample examples.

Example 1:

This example is the default table style for Word.

Our XHTML output for the table can be found here.

Example 2:

This example shows shading applied to cells vs. rows.

Our XHTML output for the table can be found here.

Example 3:

This example shows difference of fidelity when publishing from Word:

In Word	In Browser

Our XHTML output for the table can be found here.

Example 4:

This example shows different borders being applied to different cells:

Our XHTML output for the table can be found here.

Comments are welcome