TEMPLATE Procedure: Creating a Style Template (Definition)

Example 5: Defining Multiple Style Elements in One STYLE Statement

PROC TEMPLATE features:

DEFINE STYLE statement:

STYLE statement:

FROM option

Style attributes:

	BACKGROUNDCOLOR=
	BORDERWIDTH=
	CELLSPACING=
	FONTFAMILY=
	FONTSIZE=
	FONTSTYLE=
	FONTWEIGHT=
	COLOR=

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..

Table template:

Table1.

Program Description

This example creates a style that defines multiple style elements concurrently. When style element names are specified multiple times, all of the attributes from all instances of that name are collected to create the final set of style attributes. Defining multiple style elements in one STYLE statement makes it possible to create shorter, easier to read programs and to make changes to style attributes in a single STYLE statement rather than in many STYLE statements.

For example, if you wanted to add the style element BorderColor=black to the style elements CellContents, Header, and SystemTitle in the program below, you could add it once, to the first STYLE statement, instead of adding it three times, to each individual STYLE statement.

Program

proc template;
   define style newstyle;

      style cellcontents, header, systemtitle / 
         fontfamily="arial, helvetica"
         fontweight=medium
         backgroundcolor=blue
         fontstyle=roman
         fontsize=5
         color=white;

      class header /
         backgroundcolor=very light blue;

      class systemtitle /
         backgroundcolor=white
         color=red
         fontstyle=italic
         fontsize=6;

      style footer from systemtitle /
         fontsize=3;

      class table /
         cellspacing=5
         borderwidth=10;
      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: Specifying Colors and Fonts

HTML Output

[HTML Output]

style cell / backgroundcolor=symget("bkgr");

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