I am using XMLWorker and itext to convert html to pdf .
my html have a table and I need to set it's cellspacing =0 cellpadding=0 .
does anyone know how to do it ?
in html I saw I can replace it by setting the style :
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0px ;
border : 0;
padding : 0;
thanks
Tami
I've tried what you're doing using the CSS you propose and it works for me:
You can find my test here: ParseHtmlTable5
This is my HTML (including the CSS): table3_css.html
<html>
<head>
<style>
table, td {
border: 1px solid green;
border-spacing: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table class='test'>
<tr>
<th>Firstname</th>
<th>Lastname</th>
<th>Savings</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Peter</td>
<td>Griffin</td>
<td>$100</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lois</td>
<td>Griffin</td>
<td>$150</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Joe</td>
<td>Swanson</td>
<td>$300</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cleveland</td>
<td>Brown</td>
<td>$250</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
I suggest that you compare your HTML with mine to find out what you're doing wrong.
You should also use the latest version of XML Worker and iText(Sharp) as we've improved HTML parsing significantly in the latest releases.
Note that I've defined a solid, green border of 1px to prove that there is no padding and no spacing between the cells. If you change the CSS like this:
<style>
table, td {
border: 0px;
border-spacing: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
</style>
You'll get the (ugly) version of a table without borders, without spacing between the cells and without padding inside the cells.
Related
I want to display a photo, but without linking. Unable to remove the dynamic {{pic}} in the image module styles panel on the left. Trying to delete it crashes the page.
And I don't know how to remove it properly from the module HTML editor either:
<td style="font-size:6px; line-height:10px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;" valign="top" align="left"><img class="max-width" border="0" style="display:block; color:#000000; text-decoration:none; font-family:Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size:16px;" width="163" alt="" data-proportionally-constrained="true" data-responsive="false" src="{{pic}}" height="163"></td>
I have some design requirements for an email template where I have two "challenges":
two columns need to flip to one column
some visible border lines need to be switched from vertical to horizontal
The following shows how it should look (2 columns on the left for desktop, 1 column on the right for mobile):
The whole email is based on responsive tables and the two-column part is implemented as follows right now:
<table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
style="background-color:#F6F6F6; font-size: 14px; color:#58595b; width:100%; border-collapse:collapse;">
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" height="10" colspan=2 style="line-height: 10px; font-size: 10px;"> </td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="border-right: 1.5px solid; border-color: #d0d0d0; padding-right:40px; text-align:right; width:42%; vertical-align:top;">
Start point
</td>
<td valign="top" style="padding-left:40px; vertical-align:top;">
<strong>Fri, January 12, 2023 12:00</strong>
<br />
Harbour, Seatown
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" height="10" colspan=2 style="line-height: 10px; font-size: 10px;"> </td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="border-right: 1.5px solid; border-color: #d0d0d0; padding-right:40px; text-align:right; width:42%; vertical-align:top;">
End point
</td>
<td valign="top" style="padding-left:40px; vertical-align:top;">
<strong>So, January 18, 2023 10:00</strong>
<br />
Central Station, Capital
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" height="10" colspan=2 style="line-height: 10px; font-size: 10px;"> </td></tr>
</table>
I tried the approach with having a left and a right table (explained here) but the problem is that I do not use fixed widths.
How could I achieve the required design with a responsive mail template?
You will need to use the technique as outlined in the link, but if you want to use percentages instead of fixed widths, then use width="50%".
This is because the technique works on the basic fundamentals of HTML, that if a block doesn't fit in the space available, it will automatically shift underneath.
So to enable the stacking without a fixed pixel width, you will need to add a #media query to force the stacking (otherwise it would not stack).
e.g.
#media (max-width: 620px)
.table-left,.table-right {
width: 100% !important;
}
(The article you link to is a bit outdated: don't use [class=...], just write it out normally. Gmail may strip the entire <style> section if it doesn't like something in it, and this is one of those things it doesn't like.)
I prefer an override (max-width, and !important) because you want everything possible inline, and only to use embedded styles where strictly necessary.
But that's also why it's best to use a fixed pixel width, because some email clients do not respect your embedded styles (styles in the <head>). GANGA emails (one form of Gmail account) fall into this category. Those email clients would not stack even though they may need to, if you fully rely on the #media query for the stacking.
To override the border, put a style on the <td>, and reference it in the #media query, e.g.
#media (max-width: 620px)
.border {
border-right:none!important;
}
.border-top {
border-bottom:1.5px solid #d0d0d0 !important;
}
As one doesn't have the same border structure (they don't both need border-bottom), one of the <td>s will need a different class. Here, I'm expecting the first one, i.e. <td class="border border-top">.
In FooTable 3.1.4 I want to use a pretified i-Check checkbox for a checkAll functionality in the Header of the table.
This is the HTML without i-Check:
<th data-type="html" data-sortable="false"
data-filterable="false" style="display: table-cell;"
class="footable-last-visible">Choose
<input name="check_all" class="all" type="checkbox">
</th>
When we run this script without i-Checks it runs fine. However - applying i-Checks makes the prettified checkbox unclickable - We are unable to check / uncheck.
This is the HTML with i-Check applied:
<th class="footable-last-visible" data-type="html" data-sortable="false"
data-filterable="false" style="display: table-cell;">Kies
<div class="icheckbox_square-green" style="position: relative;">
<input type="checkbox" name="check_all" class="all"
style="position: absolute; opacity: 0;">
<ins style="position: absolute; top: 0%; left: 0%; display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; opacity: 0;"
class="iCheck-helper">
</ins>
</div>
</th>
So it seems FooTable does not accept the i-Checks modified HTML in the head of the table. I did find a (closed) Github Issue post addressing the problem :
"the issue was that the sorting component worked off of a click on the
entire TH element and had a call to e.preventDefault() in the handler.
This was basically killing the default click behavior of elements
placed within the header element. I've since removed this limitation
and it will be released in the next version shortly."
But this post does not clarify as of which version of FooTable this problem is solved.
Or did I make a mistake in the code ..... So - any input much appreciated.
your script must be:
//first
$('.table').footable();
//after
$('#checkall').on('ifChecked ifUnchecked',function(evant){
if(evant.type == 'ifChecked')
$('.check').iCheck('check');
else
$('.check').iCheck('uncheck');
});
The HTML code is:
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
<style type="text/css">
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
table tr td {
border: 2px solid black;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>row 1 cell 1</td>
<td>row 1 cell 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 2 cell 1</td>
<td>row 2 cell 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
But in the output PDF file, the inner borders are doubled width.
I'm using the latest iTextSharp 5.5.6 & XML Worker 5.5.6.
Anyone has any idea why?
Thanks!
Leo
border-collapse: collapse; appears to not actually collapse the borders, but just move them really close to each other, if you look carefully you can see a fine line in the middle of the fat border. I could only see it when my pdf is opened in Chrome, not in my pdf-reader.. Here is a screenshot showing what i mean:
So I ended up setting the top and left borders of the table, and the right and bottom borders of the cells in the table, which gave me the desired thin line of only 1px instead of 2px, (AKA: only one line, instead of two lines)
.tableborder {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
border-top-color: black;
border-top-width: 1px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-left-color: black;
border-left-width: 1px;
border-left-style: solid;
}
.tableborder th, .tableborder td {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
border-right-color: black;
border-right-width: 1px;
border-right-style: solid;
border-bottom-color: black;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
}
Not pretty but it does the job ;-)
Before:
After:
#user538220, you mentioned a simple workaround in your comment, was it something like this, or was it a better solution?
below code worked for me.
table th,td {
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-left-width: 0px;
border-top-width: 0px;
}
Recently I have been working on a contact form for my portfolio website. The form works and I have managed to successfully send HTML mail from the server it's hosted on to my email address. Like most of my emails, these will be primarily read on my iPod Touch so the theme I based the mail template on is engineered for a screen 320px by 480px.
Even though the mail container element is set to width:100% and the same on all inner elements, there is a ~20px gap at the right side of the screen, as if that's the edge of the document:
Here is the script and style-sheet for reference:
PHP (snippet), request_form.php:
...
$email_subject = "Graphic Request - ".clean_string($first_name);
$email_message .= '<html><head><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0"/><link rel="stylesheet" href="http://blieque.comli.com/mail-styles.css" type="text/css"></head><body><table id="all" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">';
$email_message .= '<tr><td id="head"><h1>New Request</h1></td></tr>';
$email_message .= '<tr><td class="info"><span id="param">Name:</span> '.clean_string($first_name).'</td></tr>';
$email_message .= '<tr><td class="info sub"><span id="param">Email Address:</span> '.clean_string($email_from).'</td></tr>';
$email_message .= '<tr><td class="info sub"><span id="param">Service:</span> '.clean_string($service).'</td></tr>';
$email_message .= '<tr><td class="info sub jstfy"><span id="param">Details:</span> '.clean_string($request).'</td></tr>';
$email_message .= '<tr><td id="foot"></td></tr></table></body></html>';
...
CSS, mail-styles.css:
body {
margin: 0 !important;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #242424 !important;
text-decoration: none !important;
}
#all {
width: 110%;
}
#head {
background: #1393A1;
color: #61BDC7;
border-bottom: solid 0.5em #61BDC7;
width: 100%;
padding: 1em 0.5em;
height: 20px;
}
td.sub {
border-top: solid 0.25em #1393a1;
}
td.info {
padding: 0.35em 0.5em;
font-size: 12pt;
}
td.jstfy {
text-align: justify;
}
span#param {
color: #1393a1;
font-weight: bold;
}
td[class=info] {
text-transform: capitalize;
}
#foot {
background: #1393a1;
width: 100%;
height: 20px;
color: transparent;
border-top: solid 0.5em #61BDC7;
}
#line {
background: #1393a1;
width: 94%;
height: 0.25em;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
The email also doesn't work well with online email viewers as they tend to have their own overriding style-sheets for common tags like <h1>. I hope the solution is something obvious.
This worked for me:
html, body {
width: 100%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
When I used min-width instead of width, the content got too wide. I also have these viewport settings in my header:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
You could try adding min-width: 100% to the <body> element to deal with the gap.
And as the others suggested, moving your styles inline should deal with the rest of your problems.
Maybe try
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
HTML emails don't handle external stylesheets very well so this may be your problem.
You should only use inline styles on HTML emails as a general rule of thumb.
Here's a good guide on HTML emails:
http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-to-code-html-emails
This is happening because body has padding by default on most browsers. add:
body{
padding:0px;
}
I've dealt with this issue numerous times. Every time it occurs I always realize that it's happening because I'm using cellpadding incorrectly on one of my tables.
For example, I got caught up for a bit today because near the bottom of one of the emails I was working on there is a table with a press banner that stretches horizontally across the bottom like this:
<center><!-- Press Banner -->
<table border="0" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<a role="link" href="#" target="_blank" title="#">
<span class="press">
<img class="desktop" src="#" border="0" style="display:block;">
</span>
</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
That image is 600 pixels wide and is switched for a 320 pixel wide background image for the mobile layout. I needed to add some vertical spacing between that block and the others so I chose to add cellpadding="15" to do so, without realizing that 15 pixels would also stretch out horizontally. But on the iOS device this is extra space only renders on the right side, not the left, so its not obvious what the problem is.
To fix it, I removed the cellpadding and used table spacers instead on the top and bottom.
<tr>
<td><table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0"><tr><td height="4"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td>
</tr>
There are many other reasons that this issue could occur as other people have already mentioned, but just adding this potential cause for anyone else who may be overlooking the same error that I made.
Additionally as a rule of thumb, you should never import CSS in an HTML email, you should inline as much style as possible and use depreciated CSS2 tags and oldschool HTML styling elements whenever possible to achieve the highest level of cross device, client compability. I recently uploaded a project to github(link) which is the html email template I've created while building emails for some time. It's pretty much the most compatible template you'll find anywhere.