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How to format the content of a cell in a table using Java
Problem Description
How to format the content of a cell in a table using Java.
Solution
Following is the program to format the content of a cell in a table using Java.
import com.itextpdf.kernel.color.Color; import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfDocument; import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfWriter; import com.itextpdf.layout.Document; import com.itextpdf.layout.border.Border; import com.itextpdf.layout.element.Cell; import com.itextpdf.layout.element.Table; import com.itextpdf.layout.property.TextAlignment; public class BackgroundToTable { public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { //Creating a PdfWriter object String dest = "C:/itextExamples/addingBackground.pdf"; PdfWriter writer = new PdfWriter(dest); //Creating a PdfDocument object PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(writer); //Creating a Document object Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); //Creating a table float [] pointColumnWidths = {200F, 200F}; Table table = new Table(pointColumnWidths); //Populating row 1 and adding it to the table Cell c1 = new Cell(); //Creating cell1 c1.add("Name"); //Adding name to cell1 c1.setBackgroundColor(Color.DARK_GRAY); //Setting background color c1.setBorder(Border.NO_BORDER); //Setting border c1.setTextAlignment(TextAlignment.CENTER); //Setting text alignment table.addCell(c1); //Adding cell1 to the table Cell c2 = new Cell(); c2.add("Raju"); c2.setBackgroundColor(Color.GRAY); c2.setBorder(Border.NO_BORDER); c2.setTextAlignment(TextAlignment.CENTER); table.addCell(c2); //Populating row 2 and adding it to the table Cell c3 = new Cell(); c3.add("Id"); c3.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE); c3.setBorder(Border.NO_BORDER); c3.setTextAlignment(TextAlignment.CENTER); table.addCell(c3); Cell c4 = new Cell(); c4.add("001"); c4.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE); c4.setBorder(Border.NO_BORDER); c4.setTextAlignment(TextAlignment.CENTER); table.addCell(c4); //Populating row 3 and adding it to the table Cell c5 = new Cell(); c5.add("Designation"); c5.setBackgroundColor(Color.DARK_GRAY); c5.setBorder(Border.NO_BORDER); c5.setTextAlignment(TextAlignment.CENTER); table.addCell(c5); Cell c6 = new Cell(); c6.add("Programmer"); c6.setBackgroundColor(Color.GRAY); c6.setBorder(Border.NO_BORDER); c6.setTextAlignment(TextAlignment.CENTER); table.addCell(c6); //Adding Table to document doc.add(table); //Closing the document doc.close(); System.out.println("Background added successfully.."); } }
Output
java_itext
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