Working with Diagonal Borders on table

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1

Hi,

I’m trying to apply a diagonal border in a specific cell of a table (accessing to borders by CellFormat object) without succeeding. Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advice,
F.

2

@federico.altamura You can set diagonal border with the following code:

cellFormat.Borders[BorderType.DiagonalUp].LineStyle = LineStyle.Single;
3

Hi,

I’m working with diagonal borders (up and down).
I’ve done two sample code:

In this example goes good:

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.insertCell();
builder.getRowFormat().setHeight(100);
// bottom align in cell
builder.getCellFormat().setVerticalAlignment(CellVerticalAlignment.BOTTOM);
builder.write("Bottom text");
builder.insertCell();
// create diagonal line.
builder.getCellFormat().setWidth(100);
builder.getCellFormat().getBorders().getByBorderType(BorderType.DIAGONAL_UP).setLineStyle(LineStyle.SINGLE);
builder.write("test");
builder.endRow();
builder.endTable();
doc.save("C:\\Sviluppo\\example.docx");

In this sample code, the output is wrong: I compare border of two tables and I set (hardcoded for example) the lineStyle.

BorderCollection table1Borders = table1CellFormat.getBorders();
BorderCollection table2Borders = table2CellFormat.getBorders();
BorderCollection table3Borders = table3CellFormat.getBorders();

if (table1Borders.getByBorderType(BorderType.DIAGONAL_UP) != null &&
      table2Borders.getByBorderType(BorderType.DIAGONAL_UP) != null &&
      table1Borders.getByBorderType(BorderType.DIAGONAL_UP) != table2Borders.getByBorderType(BorderType.DIAGONAL_UP)) {
  table3Borders.setLineStyle(LineStyle.SINGLE);
}

if (table1Borders.getByBorderType(BorderType.DIAGONAL_DOWN) != null &&
      table2Borders.getByBorderType(BorderType.DIAGONAL_DOWN) != null &&
      table1Borders.getByBorderType(BorderType.DIAGONAL_DOWN) != table2Borders.getByBorderType(BorderType.DIAGONAL_DOWN)) {
table3Borders.setLineStyle(LineStyle.SINGLE);
}

What I do wrong?

Thanks in advice,
F.

4

@federico.altamura It’s not quite clear what the result you need in the second case. If you need to add diagonal border, then change code to table3Borders.getByBorderType(BorderType.DIAGONAL_UP).setLineStyle(LineStyle.SINGLE);. If not, please provide the full code and excpected result if possible.

5

@federico.altamura If you need to check if this border is set in the table, change the code to:

cell.getCellFormat().getBorders().getByBorderType(BorderType.DIAGONAL_UP).getLineStyle() != LineStyle.NONE

By default, all borders in the collection are present, but if they are not applied to the table, then LineStyle will be NONE.

6

Hi,

I want to compare borders of three tables:

  • table1 and table2 are the source of compare
  • table3 is table output

I save the HTML of table3 in a new Aspose document for check the output

here it is full code:

void applyBorderChanges(BorderCollection table1Borders, BorderCollection table2Borders, BorderCollection table3Borders, int borderType)
throws Exception {
try {
  Border table1Border = table1Borders.getByBorderType(borderType);
  Border table2Border = table2Borders.getByBorderType(borderType);
  Border table3Border = table3Borders.getByBorderType(borderType);

  if (table1Border.getLineStyle() != LineStyle.NONE && table2Border.getLineStyle() != LineStyle.NONE) {
	if (BorderType.getName(borderType).equals("DIAGONAL_UP") || BorderType.getName(borderType).equals("DIAGONAL_DOWN")) {
	  table3Border.setLineStyle(LineStyle.SINGLE);
	} else {
	  table3Border.setLineStyle(table2Border.getLineStyle());
	}
  }
  if (table1Border.getLineWidth() != table2Border.getLineWidth()) {
	table3Border.setLineWidth(table2Border.getLineWidth());
  }
  if (table1Border.getColor() != null && table2Border.getColor() != null) {
	table3Border.setColor(table2Border.getColor());
  }
  if (table1Border.getShadow() != table2Border.getShadow()) {
	table3Border.setShadow(table2Border.getShadow());
  }
  if (table1Border.getThemeColor() != table2Border.getThemeColor()) {
	table3Border.setThemeColor(table2Border.getThemeColor());
  }
  if (table1Border.getTintAndShade() != table2Border.getTintAndShade()) {
	table3Border.setTintAndShade(table2Border.getTintAndShade());
  }
  if (table1Border.getDistanceFromText() != table2Border.getDistanceFromText()) {
	table3Border.setDistanceFromText(table2Border.getDistanceFromText());
  }
} catch (Exception e) {
  throw new Exception(e.getMessage());
}
}

Thanks in advice,
F.

7

@federico.altamura Some tables may have row-level borders, which will be preferred over cell-level borders. Could you please provide your input and expected output documents here?

8

Oh sure.

In output document i’ll expect table with all borders and diagonal up and down border

docs.zip (33.0 KB)

9

@federico.altamura I wrote this code to augment your code and get the result:

Document doc = new Document("input.docx");

NodeCollection tables = doc.getChildNodes(NodeType.TABLE, true);
ArrayList<Cell> cells1 = getCellsFromTable((Table) tables.get(0));
ArrayList<Cell> cells2 = getCellsFromTable((Table) tables.get(1));
ArrayList<Cell> cells3 = getCellsFromTable((Table) tables.get(2));

ArrayList<CellTriple> cellPairs = new ArrayList<>();
for (int i = 0; i < cells1.size(); i++) {
    CellTriple triple = new CellTriple(cells1.get(i), cells2.get(i), cells3.get(i));
    cellPairs.add(triple);
}

int[] borderTypes = { BorderType.TOP, BorderType.BOTTOM, BorderType.LEFT, BorderType.RIGHT, BorderType.DIAGONAL_UP, BorderType.DIAGONAL_DOWN };

for (CellTriple triple : cellPairs) {
    for (int borderType : borderTypes) {
        applyBorderChanges(triple.getCell1().getCellFormat().getBorders(), triple.getCell2().getCellFormat().getBorders(), triple.getCell3().getCellFormat().getBorders(), borderType);
    }
}

doc.save("output.docx");

private static ArrayList<Cell> getCellsFromTable(Table table) {
    ArrayList<Cell> cells = new ArrayList<>();
    for (Row row : table.getRows()) {
        for (Cell cell : row.getCells()) {
            cells.add(cell);
        }
    }
    return cells;
}

private static class CellTriple {
    private Cell cell1;
    private Cell cell2;
    private Cell cell3;

    public CellTriple(Cell cell1, Cell cell2, Cell cell3) {
        this.cell1 = cell1;
        this.cell2 = cell2;
        this.cell3 = cell3;
    }

    public Cell getCell1() {
        return cell1;
    }

    public Cell getCell2() {
        return cell2;
    }

    public Cell getCell3() {
        return cell3;
    }
}

I also swapped tables 2 and 3 in the input document. Here are my results:

input.docx (30.7 KB)

output.docx (27.0 KB)