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yogesh420
yogesh420

Reputation: 115

Horizontal text alignment in a PdfPCell

I am using this code to align horizontally.

cell = New PdfPCell();
p = New Phrase("value");
cell.AddElement(p);
cell.HorizontalAlignment = PdfPCell.ALIGN_CENTER; //Tried with Element.Align_Center Also. Tried Adding this line before adding element also. 
table.AddCell(cell);

It's not working.

I am creating a table with 5 columns in it and adding cells dynamically in runtime in a for loop with above code. I want all cells content to be centered.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 53024

Answers (7)

rizkidzulkarnain
rizkidzulkarnain

Reputation: 61

Finally

Change this :

 cell = New PdfPCell();
 p = New Phrase("value");
 cell.AddElement(p);
 cell.HorizontalAlignment = PdfPCell.ALIGN_CENTER; 
 table.AddCell(cell);

with this :

PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("value"));
cell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;

Looks similar but different in result I don't know why

Upvotes: 2

Sharunas Bielskis
Sharunas Bielskis

Reputation: 1203

It is possible to set alignment for all table cells as example:

table.DefaultCell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED;

if you need other alignment for some of the table cells you can specify it separately -

Phrase phraseConstant = new Phrase("Name :", font);
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(phraseConstant);
cell.HorizontalAlignment = 0;
table.AddCell(phraseConstant);

Upvotes: 0

Patrick
Patrick

Reputation: 2583

I tried all the above solutions and none worked. Then I tried this and that led me to the correct solution

PdfPCell c2 = new PdfPCell(new iTextSharp.text.Phrase("Text")) { HorizontalAlignment = iTextSharp.text.Element.ALIGN_CENTER };
table.AddCell(c2);

I know it's not required from the OP but you can also have several words centered if separated with \n. Additionally you can also vertically center with Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE

With all that the code is:

PdfPCell c2 = new PdfPCell(new iTextSharp.text.Phrase("AAAAAAAAA\nBBBBBB")) { HorizontalAlignment = iTextSharp.text.Element.ALIGN_CENTER, VerticalAlignment = iTextSharp.text.Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE };
table.AddCell(c2);

and the result:

enter image description here

Hope it helps

Upvotes: 13

Alex C
Alex C

Reputation: 17004

Per the comments, the correct answer (which I have just tested locally) is to create a paragraph element and add the alignment directive to the paragraph.

A working block of code which demonstrates this is:

        Font qFont = FontFactory.GetFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA_BOLDOBLIQUE, 10);
        List<float> widths = new List<float>();
        for(int i = 0; i < qs.Selected.Items.Count; i++) {
            widths.Add((pageRectangle.Width - 250)/ qs.Selected.Items.Count);
        }

        PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(qs.Selected.Items.Count);
        table.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
        table.SetTotalWidth(widths.ToArray());

        foreach(System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem answer in qs.Selected.Items) {
            cell = new PdfPCell();
            cell.Border = Rectangle.NO_BORDER;
/******************** RELEVANT CODE STARTS HERE ***************************/
            Paragraph p = new Paragraph(answer.Text, aFont);
            p.Alignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
            cell.AddElement(p);
            table.AddCell(cell);
/******************** RELEVANT CODE  ENDS  HERE ***************************/
        }

Credit for this should go to the user Bruno Lowagie but there seems to be some odd drama going on, complaints of downvotes on the correct answer and subsequent deletion of the same.

I'll eat the downvotes if it gets a clear answer posted in the right place at the right time.

Some things are more important than internet-points. <3

Upvotes: 5

Muneeb Siddiqui
Muneeb Siddiqui

Reputation: 131

try this,

cell.HorizontalAlignment = 1; //0=Left, 1=Centre, 2=Right

Upvotes: 8

m3div0
m3div0

Reputation: 1586

I know this is old question, but the proper sollution is to use cell.HorizontalAlignment = 1;

Here is a nice example

Upvotes: 2

Manish Sharma
Manish Sharma

Reputation: 2426

try this,

cell = New PdfPCell();
p = New Phrase("value");
cell.AddElement(p);
cell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER; //Tried with Element.Align_Center Also. Tried Adding this line before adding element also. 
table.AddCell(cell);

Upvotes: 6

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