The geometries of polygon-based shapes are also affected by the node attributes regular, peripheries and orientation. If shape="polygon", the attributes sides, skew and distortion are also used. If unset, they default to 4, 0.0 and 0.0, respectively. In addition, the 3 M* shapes support auxiliary labels using the toplabel and bottomlabel attributes. On the other hand, the point shape is special in that it is only affected by the peripheries, width and height attributes.
rlabel | = | field ( '|' field )* |
where field | = | fieldId or '{' rlabel '}' |
and fieldId | = | ( '<' string '>') ( string } |
The first string in fieldId gives a name to the field and can be combined with the node name to denote the end of an edge. The second string is used as the text for the field; it supports the usual escape sequences \n, \l and \r.
Visually, a record is a box, with fields represented by alternating rows of horizontal or vertical subboxes. The Mrecord shape is identical to a record shape, except that the outermost box has rounded corners. Flipping between horizontal and vertical layouts is done by nesting fields in braces "{...}". The top-level orientation in a record is horizontal. Thus, a record with label "A | B | C | D" will have 4 fields oriented left to right, while "{A | B | C | D}" will have them from top to bottom and "A | { B | C } | D" will have "B" over "C", with "A" to the left and "D" to the right of "B" and "C".
As an example of a record node, the dot input
If we change node struct1 to have shape Mrecord,
it then looks like:
Thus, the code
As an example of rounding, dot uses the graph
Additional styles may be available with a specific code generator.
If the value of a label attribute (label for nodes, edges, clusters, and graphs, and the headlabel and taillabel attributes of an edge) is given as an HTML string, that is, delimited by <...> rather than "...", the label is interpreted as an HTML description. At their simplest, such labels can describe multiple lines of variously aligned text as provided by ordinary string labels. More generally, the label can specify a table similar to those provided by HTML, with different graphical attributes at each level.
NOTE: The features and syntax supported by these labels is inspired by HTML. However, there are many aspects that are relevant to Graphviz labels that are not in HTML and, conversely, HTML allows various constructs which are meaningless in Graphviz. We will generally refer to these labels as "HTML labels" rather than the cumbersome "HTML-like labels" but the reader is warned that these are not really HTML. The grammar below describes precisely what Graphviz will accept.
Although HTML labels are not strictly speaking a shape, they can be viewed as a generalization of the record shapes described above. In particular, if a node has set its shape attribute to plaintext, the HTML label will be the node's shape. On the other hand, if the node has any other shape (except point), the HTML label will be embedded within the node the same way an ordinary label would be.
The following is an abstract grammar for HTML labels. Terminals are shown in bold font and nonterminals in italics. Vertical bars | separate alternatives.
label | : | text |
| | table | |
text | : | lines |
| | lines string | |
| | string | |
lines | : | string <BR/> |
| | lines string <BR/> | |
table | : | <TABLE> rows </TABLE> |
rows | : | row |
| | rows row | |
row | : | <TR> cells </TR> |
cells | : | cell |
| | cells cell | |
cell | : | <TD> label </TD> |
Above, a string is any collection of printable characters, including all spaces. Note that outside of the body of a <TD> element, whitespace characters are ignored; within a <TD> element, spaces are preserved but all other white space characters are discarded. HTML comments are allowed within an HTML string. They can occur anywhere provided that if they contain part of an HTML element, they just contain the entire element.
Each of the HTML elements has a set of optional attributes.
<TABLE ALIGN="CENTER|LEFT|RIGHT" BGCOLOR="color" BORDER="value" CELLBORDER="value" CELLPADDING="value" CELLSPACING="value" FIXEDSIZE="FALSE|TRUE" HEIGHT="value" HREF="value" PORT="portName" VALIGN="MIDDLE|BOTTOM|TOP" WIDTH="value" >
<TD ALIGN="CENTER|LEFT|RIGHT" BGCOLOR="color" BORDER="value" CELLPADDING="value" CELLSPACING="value" COLSPAN="value" FIXEDSIZE="FALSE|TRUE" HEIGHT="value" HREF="value" PORT="portName" ROWSPAN="value" VALIGN="MIDDLE|BOTTOM|TOP" WIDTH="value" >
<BR ALIGN="CENTER|LEFT|RIGHT" >
ALIGN
specifies horizontal placement. When an object is allocated more space than required, this value determines where the extra space is placed left and right of the object.BGCOLOR="color"
- CENTER aligns the object in the center. (Default)
- LEFT aligns the object on the left.
- RIGHT aligns the object on the right.
sets the color of the background. This color can be overridden by a BGCOLOR attribute in descendents.BORDER="value"
specifies the width of the border around the object in points. A value of zero indicates no border. The default is 1. If set in a table, and CELLBORDER is not set, this value is also used for all cells in the table. It can be overridden by a BORDER tag in a cell.CELLBORDER="value"
specifies the width of the border for all cells in a table. It can be overridden by a BORDER tag in a cell.CELLPADDING="value"
specifies the space, in points, between a cell's border and its content. The default is 2.CELLSPACING="value"
specifies the space, in points, between cells in a table and between a cell and the table's border. The default is 2.COLSPAN="value"
specifies the number of columns spanned by the cell. The default is 1.FIXEDSIZE
specifies whether the values given by the WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes are enforced.HEIGHT="value"
- FALSE allows the object to grow so that all its contents will fit. (Default)
- TRUE fixes the object size to its given WIDTH and HEIGHT. Both of these attributes must be supplied.
specifies the mininum height, in points, of the object. The height includes the contents, any spacing and the border. Unless FIXEDSIZE is true, the height will be expanded to allow the contents to fit.HREF="value"
attaches a URL to the object.PORT="value"
attaches a port name to the object. This can be used to modify the head or tail of an edge, so that the end attaches directly to the object.ROWSPAN="value"
specifies the number of rows spanned by the cell. The default is 1.
VALIGN
specifies vertical placement. When an object is allocated more space than required, this value determines where the extra space is placed above and below the object.WIDTH="value"
- MIDDLE aligns the object in the center. (Default)
- LEFT aligns the object on the left.
- RIGHT aligns the object on the right.
specifies the mininum width, in points, of the object. The width includes the contents, any spacing and the border. Unless FIXEDSIZE is true, the width will be expanded to allow the contents to fit.
There is some inheritance among the attributes. If a table specifies a CELLPADDING, CELLBORDER or BORDER value, this value is used by the table's cells unless overridden. If a cell or table specifies a BGCOLOR, this will be the background color for all of its descendents. Of course, if a background or fill color is specified for the graph object owning the label, this will be the original background for the label. Finally, the pencolor or color of the graph object will be used as the border color, and the object's fontname, fontcolor and fontsize attributes are used for drawing text.
Because of certain limitations in handling tables in a device-independent manner, when BORDER is 1 and both table and cell borders are on and CELLSPACING is less than 2, anomalies can arise in the output, such as gaps between sides of borders which should be abutting or even collinear. The user can usual get around this by increasing the border size or the spacing, or turning off the table border.
As an example of HTML labels, the dot input
left | mid dle | right |
one | two |
hello world |
b | g | h | ||
c | d | e | |||
f |
As usual, an HTML specification is more verbose. On the other hand, HTML labels are much more general, as the following example shows:
The source for this graph can be found here.