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Biswa Ranjan Mohanty
Biswa Ranjan Mohanty

Reputation: 21

How to align some text as center and some text as align right within a single cell in a table

How to align some text as center and some text as right align in the same line within a single cell within a table In XSL-FO only.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3382

Answers (3)

Tony Graham
Tony Graham

Reputation: 8068

Use fo:leader (see https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#fo_leader).

Using just <fo:leader /> when there is text-align="justify" on the fo:block may be sufficient.

If that doesn't give the right result, it may be because the default .optimum value for the leader-length property (see https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#leader-length) is 12pt. In that case, you probably want something like:

<fo:leader leader-length.optimum="100%" />

If you are using AH Formatter, you can use axf:leader-expansion="force" (see https://www.antenna.co.jp/AHF/help/en/ahf-ext.html#axf.leader-expansion) to force the leader to expand as much as possible.

Upvotes: 0

lfurini
lfurini

Reputation: 3788

If you really need to have both the centered text and the right-aligned text inside the same fo:table-cell, you could use a negative space between two fo:block elements to put them apparently on the same line:

<fo:table-cell>
    <fo:block text-align="center" space-after="-14.4pt">in the center</fo:block>
    <fo:block text-align="right">to the right</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>

This should work (I tested it with FOP), but it may be considered a bit of a dirty trick; the exact value for space-after depends on the line height for the first block, which defaults to 1.2 * font-size (itself defaulting to 12pt), so you may have to compute the correct value for your specific situation.

However, I think in many situations you could just

  1. use a 3-column table with the first and the third one having equal width
  2. put the centered text in the second cell
  3. put the right-aligned text in the third cell
  4. define a border only outside the table row, so the three cells appear as a single one in the output.

(as Tony Graham already commented, a more precise description of the desired output, or even better an image showing it, would help suggesting the right answer for your situation)

Upvotes: 0

Tony Graham
Tony Graham

Reputation: 8068

Put each block of text in a separate fo:block. Use text-align="center" on the first fo:block, and use text-align="right" on the second. See https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#text-align.

Upvotes: 0

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