<fills> (Fills)

This element defines the cell fills portion of the Styles part, consisting of a sequence of <fill> records. A cell fill consists of a background color, foreground color, and pattern to be applied across the cell.

example:

This is the corresponding XML:

<fill>
  <patternFill patternType="solid">
    <fgColor rgb="FFFFFF00"/>
    <bgColor indexed="64"/>
  </patternFill>
</fill>

This cell has a yellow fill with a thin horizontal crosshatch pattern applied (@patternType = lightGrid):

This is the corresponding XML:

<fill>
  <patternFill patternType="lightGrid">
  <bgColor rgb="FFFFFF00"/>
  </patternFill>
</fill>

Parent Elements

<styleSheet> (§3.8.39)

Child Elements

Subclause

<fill> (Fill)

§3.8.19

Attributes

Description

<count> (Fill Count)

Count of <fill> elements.

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the XML Schema unsignedInt datatype.

The following XML Schema fragment defines the contents of this element:

<complexType name="CT_Fills">
	<sequence>
	<element name="fill" type="CT_Fill" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
	</sequence>
	<attribute name="count" type="xsd:unsignedInt" use="optional"/>
</complexType>