Right align in footnote generates two equal table cells and causes unnecessary word wrap

[Peter_L]

I want a footnote in my output with a left-aligned long text string and a small right-aligned image. I can do this with the following code:

ods escapechar='^';
footnote1 "Very long text which wraps half-way across the page because of a design error" justify=right "^{style [postimage='image.png']}";

This works the same in both HTML and PDF. The text wraps half-way across the page. It looks something like this:

Very long text which wraps half-way across the page because of a                       [image]
design error

On inspecting the HTML I can see that SAS generates a table with two cells in this case. The widths are fixed at 50% each. In my view this is a design error. The widths should adapt to the contents with the auto table layout algorithm of CSS. A better solution would be to implement the separately aligned text strings with HTML SPAN elements and CSS style text-align, which can be left, center and right. Exactly the same applies to a title as it is also a table.

I have tried to work around this with no success. In HTML with CSS it is trivially simple to make an image or inline text float right. As I want this to work in HTML and PDF I have to use SAS's complex ODS.

Has anyone found a way to make ODS float an image right in a footnote without causing the footnote to be split into two table cells?

Version: SAS 9.4M5 64-bit on Windows 10.

[tsap]

Have you tried putting the image on a separate line below the main footer text? Like this:

ods escapechar='^';
footnote1 "Very long text which wraps half-way across the page because of a design error";
footnote2 justify=right "^{style [postimage='image.png']}";

From my own testing, it looks like that should accomplish what you are attempting to achieve.

[Peter_L]

Thanks for investigating this. I had realised that the image could go on a separate line. My use case requires it on the same line as the text.