JavaScript API: createListStyle

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createListStyle

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Creates list style.

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You are reading the JavaScript API documentation. For the PHP API method please go to createListStyle.

Description

createListStyle (name: string, styles: OptionsNumPr[]): this

interface OptionsNumPr extends OptionsParagraph {
    /** Format. Default as %1. for the first level, %2. for second level... */
    format?: string;
    /** Indentations: twips value */
    indentation?: {
        /** Default as 360 */
        hanging?: number;
        /** Default as 720 times the list level */
        left?: number;
    };
    /** Justification. Default as left */
    justification?: string;
    /** Paragraph style. Default as ListParagraph */
    pStyle?: string;
    /** Start value. Default as 1 */
    start?: number;
    /** Suffix */
    suff?: "space" | "tab";
    /** Type: decimal, bullet, upperRoman, lowerRoman, upperLetter, lowerLetter, ordinal, cardinalText, ordinalText, none... */
    type: string;
}

interface OptionsParagraph extends OptionsRpr {
    /** Alignment */
    align?: string;
    /** Background color: HEX value */
    backgroundColor?: string;
    /** Bidi */
    bidi?: boolean;
    /** Contextual spacing. Don't added space between paragraphs of the same style */
    contextualSpacing?: boolean;
    /** Indentations: twips value */
    indentation?: {
        firstLine?: number;
        hanging?: number;
        left?: number;
        right?: number;
    };
    /** Keep lines together */
    keepLines?: boolean;
    /** Keep with next */
    keepNext?: boolean;
    /** Spacing: twips value */
    spacing?: {
        line?: number;
        after?: number;
        before?: number;
    };
    /** Outline level (heading level): 1, 2, 3... */
    outlineLvl?: number;
    /** Paragraph style */
    pStyle?: string;
    /** Parse line breaks. Default as true */
    parseLineBreaks?: boolean;
    /** Parse tabs. Default as true */
    parseTabs?: boolean;
    /** Parse break before */
    pageBreakBefore?: boolean;
    /** RTL */
    rtl?: boolean;
    /** Shading color: HEX value */
    shading?: string;
}

interface OptionsRpr {
    /** Bold */
    bold?: boolean;
    /** Color: HEX value */
    color?: string;
    /** Font family */
    font?: string;
    /** Font size: point values */
    fontSize?: number;
    /** Highligh color */
    highlight?:
        | "black"
        | "blue"
        | "cyan"
        | "green"
        | "magenta"
        | "red"
        | "yellow"
        | "white"
        | "darkBlue"
        | "darkCyan"
        | "darkGreen"
        | "darkMagenta"
        | "darkRed"
        | "darkYellow"
        | "darkGray"
        | "lightGray"
        | "none";
    /** Italic */
    italic?: boolean;
    /** Language */
    lang?: string;
    /** Character style */
    rStyle?: string;
    /** Strikethrough */
    strikethrough?: boolean;
    /** Underline */
    underline?:
        | "single"
        | "words"
        | "double"
        | "thic"
        | "dotted"
        | "dottedHeavy"
        | "dash"
        | "dashedHeavy"
        | "dashLong"
        | "dashLongHeavy"
        | "dotDash"
        | "dashDotHeavy"
        | "dotDotDash"
        | "dashDotDotHeavy"
        | "wave"
        | "wavyHeavy"
        | "wavyDouble"
        | "none";
}

Code samples

Example #1

import {
    CreateDocx,
    ListNested,
    OptionsList,
    OptionsNumPr,
} from "build";
import * as fs from "fs";

const docx = new CreateDocx();

// create custom list style with name "myliststyle1"
const listStyle: OptionsNumPr[] = [
    {
        type: "lowerLetter",
        format: "%1.",
    },
    {
        type: "lowerRoman",
        format: "%1.%2.",
        indentation: {
            hanging: 540,
        },
    },
];
docx.createListStyle("myliststyle1", listStyle);

const items: ListNested = [
    "Item 1",
    "Item 2",
    ["Item A", "Item B", "Item C"],
    "Item 3",
    "Item 4",
    "Item 5",
];
// set the custom list style as type
const optionsList: OptionsList = {
    type: "myliststyle1",
};
docx.addList(items, optionsList);

docx.save().then(contents => {
    fs.writeFileSync("createListStyle_1.docx", Buffer.from(contents));
});

The resulting Word document looks like:

Release notes

phpdocx 15.0:
- new method.