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Trouble setting a table's column widths
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Posted by meyerandassoc  · 08-02-2017 - 20:22

I'm trying to create a table but no matter that I set the column witdths to the table is the full width of the page. 

Here are the table properties I'm using:

$tableProperties = array(
    'border'=>'single',
    'borderColor'=>'#000000',
    'borderWidth'=>10,
    'tableAlign'=>'center',
    'tableLayout'=>'fixed',
    'textProperties'=>array('fontSize'=>11,'textAlign'=>'center'),
    'columnWidths'=>array(100,100)
);

I've also tried it without the 'tableLayout' property as well as varying values for 'ColumnWidths'. 

I need both columns to be equal widths, and the table to be approximately 2.5 inches wide. I'd settle for using the 'width' property of tableData but I can't find any code examples.

 

Thanks

Posted by admin  · 09-02-2017 - 08:06

Hello,

By default all tables extend to fit the full width of the page.

You can overwrite this behaviour using a table style or the tableWidth option:

<?php

require_once 'classes/CreateDocx.inc';

$docx = new CreateDocx();

$valuesTable = array(
    array(
        11,
        12,
    ),
    array(
        21,
        22,
    ),
    array(
        31,
        32,
    ),
);

$tableProperties = array(
    'border' => 'single',
    'borderColor' => '#000000',
    'borderWidth' => 10,
    'tableAlign' => 'center',
    'tableLayout'=>'fixed',
    'textProperties' => array('fontSize' => 11, 'textAlign' => 'center'),
    'columnWidths' => array(2000, 2000),
    'tableWidth' => array('type' => 'dxa', 'value' => 4000),
);

$docx->addTable($valuesTable, $tableProperties);

$docx->createDocx('output');

For further information about the tableWidth option please check this API doc:

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

Regards.

Posted by meyerandassoc  · 09-02-2017 - 08:16

Thank you very much. The 'tableWidth' property solved my problem.