Colspan and Rowspan in tables
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Topic: Colspan and Rowspan in tables
Posted By: chris_adsi
Subject: Colspan and Rowspan in tables
Date Posted: 17 May 22 at 4:53PM
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I need to produce a document with some repeated sections where the information is presented in a table. Ideally I need to be able to emulate colspan so I can have a couple of rows that cut across all columns. I don't think this is possible is it using the standard table functionality? Can I emulate it by placing 2 tables right on top of each other, or some other way? The content is truly dynamic so drawing lines etc could get very tricky! I can see that colspan and rowspan would come in very handy, so if there are techniques to emulate this that would be great.
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Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 18 May 22 at 10:15PM
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Hi Chris, without detailed understanding what you mean: Perhaps thinking about inserting html-table-code could be an idea? Here's a sample: https://www.debenu.com/kb/insert-table-pdf/ Cheers, Ingo ------------- Cheers, Ingo |
Posted By: chris_adsi
Date Posted: 19 May 22 at 8:34AM
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What I need to do is have a table where the top tow rows span across all columns, and then all following rows have 2, 3, or more columnns - i.e. C C CCC CCC CCC Where the top two span the shole width
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Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 19 May 22 at 10:32AM
and this you can do with the used html-code and the sample i've sent. If you're not familiar with this: https://www.tablesgenerator.com/html_tables ------------- Cheers, Ingo |
chris_adsi wrote:Posted By: chris_adsi
Date Posted: 19 May 22 at 10:40AM
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Hi - I am very familiar with how to do colspan and row span in HTML, just not how to implement the same in QuickPDF. When I draw a table I use CreateTable and specify the columns and rows. When I use SetTableCellContent I have to specify an actual column and row number, so effectively targetting a single cell? When I use DrawTableRows it takes first row and last row as an argument. I can't quite fathom out how I can merge cells across a row, or down a column? |
Posted By: kevinqpl
Date Posted: 19 May 22 at 7:33PM
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Hi Chris, I think the MergeTableCells function will be exactly what you're looking for.
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Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 19 May 22 at 10:27PM
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Hi Kevin, thanks for being here. Cheers and welcome, Ingo ------------- Cheers, Ingo |
Posted By: chris_adsi
Date Posted: 20 May 22 at 8:33AM
| Ah perfect - thanks for that - had missed that function completely! |