The TEMPLATE Procedure

Example 4: Creating a Stand-alone Style Definition

PROC TEMPLATE features:

DEFINE STYLE statement

STYLE statement

	BACKGROUND=
	BORDERCOLORDARK=
	BORDERCOLORLIGHT=
	BORDERWIDTH=
	CELLSPACING=
	FONT_FACE=
	FONT_SIZE=
	FONT_STYLE=
	FONT_WEIGHT=
	FOREGROUND=

DEFINE TABLE statement

	CLASSLEVELS= table attribute
	DYNAMIC statement
	MVAR statement

DEFINE COLUMN statement

	BLANK_DUPS=
	GENERIC=
	HEADER=
	STYLE=

DEFINE FOOTER statement

TEXT statement

Other ODS features:

ODS HTML statement

ODS LISTING statement

FILE statement with ODS= option

PUT statement with _ODS_ argument

Data set:

GRAIN_PRODUCTION

Format:

$CNTRY.

This example creates a style definition that is not based on any other style definition. In general, when you create a style definition, you are likely to base it on one of the definitions that SAS Institute provides (see Modifying the Default Style Definition for the HTML Destination). However, this example is provided to show you some of the basics of creating a style definition.

It is important to understand that by default, certain table elements are rendered with certain style elements. For instance, unless you specify a different style element with the STYLE= attribute, ODS renders SAS titles with the systemtitle style element. Similarly, unless you specify otherwise, ODS renders headers with the header style element. (For information of what each style element does, see What Is the Default Style Definition Like?.)

Program

proc template; define style newstyle; style cellcontents / background=blue foreground=white font_face="arial, helvetica" font_weight=medium font_style=roman font_size=4;

style header / background=very light blue foreground=blue font_face="arial, helvetica" font_weight=bold font_style=roman font_size=5;

style systemtitle / background=white foreground=red font_face="arial, helvetica" font_weight=bold font_style=italic font_size=6;

style footer from systemtitle / font_size=3;

style table / cellspacing=5 borderwidth=10 bordercolorlight=very light blue bordercolordark=blue;

end; run;

proc template; define table table1;

mvar sysdate9;

dynamic colhd;

classlevels=on;

define column char_var; generic=on; blank_dups=on; header=colhd; style=cellcontents; end;

define column num_var; generic=on; header=colhd; style=cellcontents; end;

define footer table_footer; text 'Prepared on ' sysdate9; end;

end; run;

ods listing close;

ods html body='newstyle-body.htm' style=newstyle;

title 'Leading Grain Producers'; title2 'in 1996';

data _null_; set grain_production; where type in ('Rice', 'Corn') and year=1996;

file print ods=( template='table1'

columns=( char_var=country(generic=on format=$cntry. dynamic=(colhd='Country')) char_var=type(generic dynamic=(colhd='Year')) num_var=kilotons(generic=on format=comma12. dynamic=(colhd='Kilotons')) ) );

put _ods_; run;

ods html close; ods listing;

HTML Output

HTML Output Produced with a New Style Definition

You can use the colors and fonts to confirm that SAS titles use the systemtitle style element, that column headers use the header style element, that the footer uses the table-footer style element, and that the contents of both character and numeric cells use the cellcontents style element. Use the width of the table border, the border colors, and the spacing between cells to confirm that the table itself is rendered with the table style element.

Chapter Contents
Previous
Next
Top of Page