Alignment for table cells about jspdf-autotable HOT 8 CLOSED

Just in case someone finds this issue. I've used a solution shown here: https://jsfiddle.net/j9vaqpnz/10/

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Unfortunately there is no simple way of doing alignment and you have to manually calculate the text positions for now in the renderCell method. In the Custom Style example I made an example of center alignment. To simplify alignments is very high on the priority list however.

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Ok. Thanks for the tip. 😄

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When I look at the Custom Style example PDF, I don't see anything centered. What I'm trying to accomplish is right aligning currency data. My initial thought was to do something like this:

// Inside renderCell
x = doc.internal.pageSize.width - width

However, it appears that width represents cell width, not width of the actual text value. I'm having trouble finding documentation on the text object, so any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

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I updated the advanced styling example with a right aligned currency column. It should work, however as mentioned this is harder than it should be and it will be easier to style tables in version 2.0.

// In the renderCell function
// All cells with key 'currency' will be right aligned
doc.rect(x, y, width, height, 'S');
if (key === 'currency') {
    var strWidth = doc.getStringUnitWidth('' + value) * doc.internal.getFontSize();
    x += width;
    x -= 2 * settings.padding;
    x -= strWidth;
}
y += settings.lineHeight / 2 + doc.internal.getLineHeight() / 2 - 2.5;
doc.text('' + value, x + settings.padding, y);

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I had just cobbled this together from using the jsPDF API, which gave me a similar result:

if (key === 'currency') {
  var textWidth = doc.getTextDimensions(value);
  var padding = settings.padding || 0;
  var margin = settings && settings.margins ? settings.margins.horizontal : 0;
  x = doc.internal.pageSize.width - textWidth.w - padding - margin;
}

However, I'll use your example since you have a lot more experience with this kind of work. 😄

Thanks so much for your help!

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First of, no need to check if settings values exists. If not set by the user, I set default values for them. Second, your solution would only work for the right most column, but otherwise it looks good!

Some time ago I tested getTextDimensions versus using getStringUnitWidth and found that getStringUnitWidth was somewhat more exact. However, none of the them are perfect unfortunately.

No worries! :)

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Thanks for the info.

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