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    Posted by tjchen  · 20-04-2023 - 08:53

    Dear phpdocx support team,

    I am using phpdocx to generate Word documents and I have a question about adding form elements on the same line as text. I am currently using the following code:

    $item->addText('1.1', ['font' => 'Arial', 'fontSize' => 8, 'indent_left' => 10]);
$item->addFormElement('select', ['selectOptions' => [' 0 ', ' 1 ', ' 2 ', ' 3 ']]);

    However, this adds the form element on a new line instead of on the same line as the text. Is there a way to add form elements on the same line as text using phpdocx?

    Thank you for your help.

    Posted by tjchen  · 20-04-2023 - 09:25

    I have tried the approach like this :

    $item = new WordFragment($docx);
$content1 = new WordFragment($docx);
$content2 = new WordFragment($docx);
$content1->addText('1.1', ['font' => 'Arial', 'fontSize' => 8, 'indent_left' => 10]);
$content2->addFormElement('select', ['selectOptions' => [' 0 ', ' 1 ', ' 2 ', ' 3 ']]);
$content = array();
$content[] = $content1;
$content[] = $content2;
$item->addText($content);

    But the text and the form element are still not in the same line. Is there anything wrong with the code?

    Posted by admin  · 20-04-2023 - 09:51

    Hello,

    What version of phpdocx are you using?

    We have run the the following code using phpdocx 13.5:

    $docx = new CreateDocx();

$content1 = new WordFragment($docx);
$content1->addText('1.1', ['font' => 'Arial', 'fontSize' => 8, 'indent_left' => 10]);

$content2 = new WordFragment($docx);
$content2->addFormElement('select', ['selectOptions' => [' 0 ', ' 1 ', ' 2 ', ' 3 ']]);

$content = array();
$content[] = $content1;
$content[] = $content2;

$item = new WordFragment($docx);
$item->addText($content);

$docx->addText(array($item));

$docx->createDocx('output.docx');

    and the output is correct. Both contents appear in the same line.

    Also note that you can avoid generating an extra WordFragment:

    $docx = new CreateDocx();

$content1 = new WordFragment($docx);
$content1->addText('1.1', ['font' => 'Arial', 'fontSize' => 8, 'indent_left' => 10]);

$content2 = new WordFragment($docx);
$content2->addFormElement('select', ['selectOptions' => [' 0 ', ' 1 ', ' 2 ', ' 3 ']]);

$docx->addText(array($content1, $content2));

$docx->createDocx('output.docx');

    Please note that adding form and structured document tags as inline contents was added in phpdocx 13.5.

    Regards.

    Posted by tjchen  · 21-04-2023 - 01:12

    I have tried again and it works. Thank you very much.