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dataFormatAs attribute

Browser support:

Specifies how data is to be rendered.

This attribute is part of the Microsoft Tabular Data Control, so it can only be used by generated content.

JavaScript page for this attribute: dataFormatAs. You can find other example(s) there.

Possible values:

String that sets the type of the rendering.

One of the following values:

html

Rendered as HTML.

localized-text

Rendered as text with locale settings applied.

text

Default. Rendered as text.

Default: text.

Example HTML code 1:

This example uses the Microsoft Tabular Data Control to introduce the dataFormatAs attribute:

<xml id="movies">
<?xml version="1.0"?>
    <movies>
        <movie>
            <name>&lt;b&gt;Clark Kent&lt;/b&gt;</name>
            <jobtitle>Superman</jobtitle>
            <born>1966</born>
        </movie>
        <movie>
            <name>&lt;b&gt;Lois Lane&lt;/b&gt;</name>
            <jobtitle>Reporter</jobtitle>
            <born>1964</born>
        </movie>
    </movies>
</xml>

<table width="100%" cellpadding="0px" cellspacing="2px" border="1px" datasrc="#movies" datapagesize="2" >
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Jobtitle</th>
            <th>Born</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td><span datafld="name" dataformatas="html"></span></td>
            <td><span datafld="jobtitle"></span></td>
            <td><span datafld="born"></span></td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>