HTML to PDF - Table columns with percentages and colspans render as too large

Aspose.HTML Product Family
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Good morning! We use Aspose HTML 20.9.0 to convert client HTML documents to PDF. Product works great except in one instance where we have a table with percentage width columns and colspans. The first row doesn’t contain any content and just specifies column widths that total up to 100%: 1%, 50%, etc.

The second row’s first column has a colspan of 2 and it enlarges the width of the first column dramatically even though there is plenty of room in the second one. Opening the HTML in any browser produces the expected output. Here is the simplified HTML with coloring to identify columns:

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
    <tr style="font-size:1pt;">
        <td style="width:1%; background-color:yellow; height:20px;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:50%; background-color:orange;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:15%; background-color:yellow;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:1%; background-color:orange;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:10%; background-color:yellow;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:1%; background-color:orange;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:10%; background-color:yellow;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:1%; background-color:orange;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:10%; background-color:yellow;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:1%; background-color:orange;">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="2" style="background-color:yellow;">
            <p>Management fees</p>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>
            <p style="background-color:yellow;">1</p>
        </td>
        <td colspan="9" style="background-color:orange;">
            <p>
                Estimates are for the current
                fiscal year.
            </p>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

And here is the code:

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        // Initialize the PDF options
        PdfSaveOptions options = new PdfSaveOptions();
        options.PageSetup.AnyPage.Margin.Bottom = options.PageSetup.AnyPage.Margin.Top = options.PageSetup
            .AnyPage.Margin.Left = options.PageSetup.AnyPage.Margin.Right = Length.FromInches(0.3);
        options.PageSetup.AnyPage.Size.Height
            = Length.FromInches(14);
        options.PageSetup.AnyPage.Size.Width
            = Length.FromInches(8.5);
        options.JpegQuality = 100;

        // Load the Aspose.HTML License and input document
        new License().SetLicense(...);
        String content = File.ReadAllText(Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\Input.htm");
        HTMLDocument htmlDocument = new HTMLDocument(content, "");

        // Convert and open the converted document
        String outputFile = Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\Output.pdf";
        Converter.ConvertHTML(htmlDocument, options, outputFile);
        Process.Start("cmd", String.Format(
            "/c start \"\" \"{0}\"",
            outputFile));
    }

Conversion works fine with pixel widths:

        <td style="width:8px; background-color:yellow; height:20px;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:421px; background-color:orange;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:126px; background-color:yellow;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:8px; background-color:orange;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:83px; background-color:yellow;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:8px; background-color:orange;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:83px; background-color:yellow;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:8px; background-color:orange;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:83px; background-color:yellow;">&nbsp;</td>
        <td style="width:8px; background-color:orange;">&nbsp;</td>

I attached the output:

image.png (6.8 KB)

Thanks!

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@guillaumehd

We have logged an issue as HTMLNET-2820 in our issue tracking system against your case. We will further look into its details and keep you posted with the status of its rectification. Please be patient and spare us some time.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Great thanks!