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Posted by aventyret · 28-06-2024 - 14:33

When adding textboxes to my document the positioning gets all messed up.
But if I do this:

$docx->addText('my label);
$docx->addTextBox('myval);

The my label appears either above, under or after the textbox. I want it above. I have experimented with

'relativeToHorizontal'
'relativeToVertical'

and

'position'

If I set a textbox to be displayed in line with text like this-> https://pasteboard.co/p733q4sfbTJ8.png it works perfect. Sorry, I only have Word in Swedish.

How do I make this setting when creating the text box in phpdocx?

Posted by admin · 28-06-2024 - 21:43

Hello,

Textboxes are added using absolute positions as default. To add a textbox as "in line with text" you can set an empty value in the align option. Please note that you can also add a textbox in a WordFragment to apply extra styles (such as paragraph styles).

For example:

$docx = new CreateDocx();

$docx->addTextBox('myval', array('align' => ''));
$docx->addText('my label');
$docx->addBreak();

$textBoxFragment = new WordFragment($docx);
$textBoxFragment->addTextBox('myval', array('align' => ''));
$docx->addText([$textBoxFragment], array('textAlign' => 'center'));
$docx->addText('my label');

$docx->createDocx('output');

Regards.