Topic: Question about adding form elements on the same line as text

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 admin · 20-04-2023 - 08:59

Hello,

You need to use an array to add all elements as inline contents. Please check the following documentation pages to understand both approaches (inline and block contents):

You need to use the first approach.

Regards.

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.

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