Topic: Adjust column size issue

Posted by dev@ram · 11-05-2017 - 18:40

I have a table with 3 columns. I'm trying to make the 3 columns the same size.

I used the following code as per docs. I get the table rendered but the column widths are

not equal. Is something wrong ?

//the column data

$image = new WordFragment($docx);
$options = array(
'src' => $tImg,
'imageAlign' => 'center',
'scaling' => 80,
'spacingTop' => 10,
'spacingBottom' => 0,
'spacingLeft' => 0,
'cellSpacing' => 15,
'spacingRight' => 0,
'textWrap' => 0,
);
$image->addImage($options);
$tblRows[] = array(array('colspan' => 3,'value' => $image));
$tlabel = new WordFragment($docx);
$tlabel->addText(array(array('text' => 'Stat 1 ','bold' => true,'fontSize' => 10)));
$ilabel = new WordFragment($docx);
$ilabel->addText(array(array('text' => 'Stat 2 ','bold' => true,'fontSize' => 10)));
$mlabel = new WordFragment($docx);
$mlabel->addText(array(array('text' => 'Stat3','bold' => true,'fontSize' => 10)));
$tblRows[] = array($tlabel,$ilabel,$mlabel);

//table config

$tblConfig = array(
'border' => 'single',
'cellMargin' => 125,
'tableStyle' => 'TableGridPHPDOCX',
'tableAlign' => 'center',
'columnWidths' => array(1000,1000,1000),
'textProperties' => array('font' => 'Arial', 'fontSize' => 10),
);
$docx->addTable($tblRows, $tblConfig);

Posted by admin · 12-05-2017 - 07:20

Hello,

The default behaviour of MS Word is autofit table widths. You can set column widths but if the content of a cell doesn't fit a width then MS Word increase it width automatically.

You can force column widths setting tableLayout as fixed:

$tblConfig = array(
        'border' => 'single',
        'cellMargin' => 125,
        'tableStyle' => 'TableGridPHPDOCX',
        'tableAlign' => 'center',
        'columnWidths' => array(1000,1000,1000),
        'textProperties' => array('font' => 'Arial', 'fontSize' => 10),
        'tableLayout' => 'fixed',
);
$docx->addTable($tblRows, $tblConfig);

This option is explained on the addTable API page:

https://www.phpdocx.com/api-documentation/word-content/add-table-Word-document-with-PHP

Regards.

Posted by dev@ram · 12-05-2017 - 13:11

Brilliant !

Exactly what I needed. Thank you for the precise information.
The support is excellent.

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