iText 5 getDefaultCell().setBorder(PdfPCell.NO_BORDER) has no effect
Solution 1
You are mixing two different concepts.
Concept 1: you define every PdfPCell
manually, for instance:
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Menge", tfont));
cell.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
table.addCell(cell);
In this case, you define every aspect, every property of the cell on the cell itself.
Concept 2: you allow iText to create the PdfPCell
implicitly, for instance:
table.addCell("Adding a String");
table.addCell(new Phrase("Adding a phrase"));
In this case, you can define properties at the level of the default cell. These properties will be used internally when iText creates a PdfPCell
in your place.
Conclusion:
Either you define the border for all the PdfPCell
instances separately, or you let iText create the PdfPCell
instances in which case you can define the border at the level of the default cell.
If you choose the second option, you can adapt your code like this:
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(new float[] { 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 });
table.getDefaultCell().setBorder(PdfPCell.NO_BORDER);
Font tfont = new Font(Font.FontFamily.UNDEFINED, 10, Font.BOLD);
table.setWidthPercentage(100);
table.addCell(new Phrase("Menge", tfont));
table.addCell(new Phrase("Beschreibung", tfont));
table.addCell(new Phrase("Einzelpreis", tfont));
table.addCell(new Phrase("Gesamtpreis", tfont));
table.addCell(new Phrase("MwSt", tfont));
document.add(table);
This decision was made by design, based on experience: it offers the most flexible to work with cells and properties.
Solution 2
cell.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
you have to set NO_BORDER
on cell.
e.g.
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Menge", tfont));
cell.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
table.addCell(cell);
Mathias Mahlknecht
Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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Mathias Mahlknecht about 2 years
I'm new with iText and I'm trying to build a table. But for some reason
table.getDefaultCell().setBorder(PdfPCell.NO_BORDER)
has no effect, my table has still borders.Here is my code:
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(new float[] { 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 }); table.getDefaultCell().setBorder(PdfPCell.NO_BORDER); Font tfont = new Font(Font.FontFamily.UNDEFINED, 10, Font.BOLD); table.setWidthPercentage(100); PdfPCell cell; cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Menge", tfont)); table.addCell(cell); cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Beschreibung", tfont)); table.addCell(cell); cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Einzelpreis", tfont)); table.addCell(cell); cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Gesamtpreis", tfont)); table.addCell(cell); cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("MwSt", tfont)); table.addCell(cell); document.add(table);
Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong?