Full width title underline

SAS ODS styles provide opportunities to enhance the appearance of reports. To do this it is required to set an ODS escapechar to establish the inline formatting symbol. I like to use the tilde (~) symbol as in ODS escapechar = "~" ;.

Once the escapechar has been established, use it to set style properties using this syntax "~{style[ property = value ]text to display}" ;.

If you want to have a centered title with a thin red line underneath it spanning the full width of the page, use the width = 100% value (outputwidth= can also be used). The first example below uses the default width= value and is not what was desired. The second attempt works as expected.

options nodate nonumber ;
ods listing close ;
ods escapechar = "~" ;

ods pdf file = "c:\temp\partialline.pdf" ;
  title j = c "~{style[ borderbottmcolor = red 
                        borderbottomwidth = 0.5pt 
                        color = black]SASHELP.CLASS Report}" ;
  proc report data = sashelp.class( obs = 2 ) ;
  run ;
ods pdf close ;


  
ods pdf file = "c:\temp\fullline.pdf" ;
  title j = c "~{style[ borderbottmcolor = red 
                        borderbottomwidth = 0.5pt 
                        width = 100% 
                        color = black]SASHELP.CLASS Report}" ;
  proc report data = sashelp.class( obs = 2 ) ;
  run ;
ods pdf close ;


ods listing ;

UPDATE: 21Dec2015 - from SAS Tech support to create horizontal line across page in ODS PDF:

ODS PDF TEXT = "~{style[ borderbottomcolor = red borderbottomwidth = 0.5pt width = 100%] }" ;