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Valid header and footer HTML tags
You can use a limited number of HTML tags to insert hyperlinks or define formatting in texts to display in headers and footers (annotations). When possible, it is generally preferable to control the formatting of the headers and footers using the export style sheets rather than HTML tags embedded in the header and footer specifications. However, the HTML tags are useful when you want to emphasize individual words or phrases.
HTML tags
<b>...</b>
Attributes: —
Strong emphasis (bold).
<i>...</i>
Attributes: —
Emphasis (italics).
<u>...</u>
Attributes: —
Underlined.
<font>...</font>
Attributes: color, size, face
Font. You can use the color attribute to specify a color, using either the hexadecimal value or the color name, the size attribute to specify a size from 1 (smallest) to 7 (largest), and the face attribute to specify a comma-separated list of font names in order of preference.
<a>...</a>
Attributes: href
Anchor. You can use the href attribute to insert the URL of a web page.
<img/>
Attributes: src, alt
Image link. Specify the name and location of the graphic in the src attribute. You can also specify alternate text to appear when you move the mouse over the graphic using the alt attribute. (Note that this tag does not require a separate closing tag.)
<br/>
Attributes: —
Inserts a line break. (Note that this tag does not require a separate closing tag.)
Well‑formed HTML
The HTML tags used must be well-formed HTML, otherwise they may not be recognized as HTML and will appear as plain text. For example:
You must close all tags. This is particularly easy to forget when using the <br> and <img> tags, which do not have separate closing tags. Specify the line break tag as <br/> and not <br>, or it may appear in the exports as "<br>". Similarly, you need to close the <img> tag, for example:
<img src='C:\CorporateImages\logo.png' alt='SPSS logo'/>
You must use the same case for opening and closing tags.
You must enclose attributes in double or single quotation marks (for example, <font size='7'>). When using double quotation marks in your script, you need to escape each one with a second double quotation mark (for example, <font size=""7"">).
See also Microsoft: Authoring Well-Formed HTML:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa923323.aspx
Examples
The following table uses <i> and <b> tags to insert formatting and providing a hyperlink to a website.
Position
Specification
Title Header
{TableDescription}
Left Header
<i>This table is not filtered</i>
Left Footer
Last populated: {RunTime \s}<br/>
<b>Please visit our website at </b>
<a href="http://www.unicomsi.com">http://www.unicomsi.com</a>
Right Footer
<b>Table: </b>{TableNumber} of {TotalNumberOfTables}
Here is a table that shows these headers and footers:
The following table uses <font> and <img> tags to define formatting and insert a logo.
Position
Specification
Title Header
{TableDescription}
Left Footer
<font color='Red' size='3' face='Verdana'>Survey still in progress</font>
Right Footer
<img src='C:\MyImages\logo.png'/>
Here is a table that shows these headers and footers:
See also
Headers and footers