I am trying to display a simple table with fixed height using dompdf:
#d {
border-collapse: collapse;
width: 100%;
height: 500px;
}
#d td {
vertical-align: top;
padding: 10px;
border-left: 1px solid #e8e8e8;
border-right: 1px solid #e8e8e8;
}
<table id="d">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>aaa</td>
<td>aaa</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>bbb</td>
<td>bbb</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ccc</td>
<td>ccc</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ddd</td>
<td>ddd</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
table bottom
But PDF render is not as I expect:
What I want is that table rows height should be auto-adjusted to the table height like on pure html render: http://jsfiddle.net/qfw627an/
Is there a way to do that with dompdf?
Thanks
you may hate this answer, but you can't get there from here.
I had alot of trouble with DomPDF on a project. It doesn't look like it's gotten better in the last couple years.
Simulating a browser in PHP is a hard problem. Luckily, someone built a "headless" version of Webkit to print PDF's.
http://wkhtmltopdf.org/
We switched to this and were back to working on our application again, instead of endless fiddling with printing.
Good luck!
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I am trying to create a PDF that contains table which is partly filled, partly empty. To accomplish this I am using DomPDF via a Laravel wrapper.
It seems that DomPDF somehow miscalculates the height of the empty cells and also displaces the table grid and content.
Here is a minimal broken example:
<html>
<head>
<style>
html, body {
font-family: DejaVu Sans;
}
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border: none;
margin: 0;
width: 100%;
}
table.main td {
padding: 0;
border: 2px solid black;
}
.main table td {
border: 1px black solid;
text-align: center;
font-size: 10px;
height: 14px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table class="main">
<tr>
<td>
<table>
<tr><td>1</td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td></tr>
<tr><td>5</td></tr>
<tr><td>6</td></tr>
<tr><td>7</td></tr>
<tr><td>8</td></tr>
<tr><td>9</td></tr>
<tr><td>10</td></tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table>
<tr><td>1</td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td></tr>
<tr><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td></tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This is how that table looks like in the generated PDF:
I have tried to add min-height and max-height for the table cell, but no results, it still randomly misaligns everything.
It turns out that this requires line-height to be set exactly equal to the font size. This will work:
.main table td {
border: 1px black solid;
text-align: center;
font-size: 10px;
line-height: 10px;
height: 14px;
}
I am using a combo-box control inside Grid View.
I am trying to describe the problem clearly
My HTML Code:
<AJAX:ComboBox ID="ddlContactName1" runat="server"
AutoPostBack="true" Width="190px"
OnSelectedIndexChanged="ddlContactName_SelectIndexChanged"
DropDownStyle="DropDownList" Enabled="false" CssClass="WindowsStyle" AutoCompleteMode="Suggest">
</AJAX:ComboBox>
Code Generated by ASP on browser:
<td class="td_search_box">
<div id="ctl00_MainContent_grdContacts_ctl02_ddlContactType1" class="acb" style="display: inline-block;">
<table id="ctl00_MainContent_grdContacts_ctl02_ddlContactType1_Table" class="ajax__combobox_inputcontainer" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"
style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse;
display: inline-block; position: relative; top: 5px;">
...........
Combobox (ddlContactType1) renders as div and table inside. Table has class and style. Style has attribute "top: 5px;" causing padding from top.
As a result combobox is shifted on 5 pixels from top and lies above table grid line.
I want to make the top:0px;.How to do this?
Can anybody has any idea?
Thnaks in advance
I got the solution.And hope it will help others,
<style type="text/css">
.ajax__combobox_inputcontainer
{
top:0px !important;
}
</style
The IE8 documentation says it supports min-width, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
The html I want to be a minimum width is in table cells.
I saw another question here which suggested adding a 1-pixel height div to each cell, with a width setting, but that doesn't work - IE renders it as 18 pixels high, for some reason.
Here is the html code:
<html>
<head>
<script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<style type="text/css">
table.keyboard div.key {
height: 50px;
font-size:50px;
border: 5px outset gray;
min-width: 60px;
text-align: center;
}
table.keyboard div.spc {
height: 1px;
width: 60px;
background-color: green;
}
table.keyboard td:hover {
background-color: lightblue;
}
table.keyboard {
border: 3px inset blue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="body">
<div>Here is some stuff</div>
<table class='keyboard'>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><div class='key'>1</div><div class='spc'></div></td>
<td><div class='key'>2</div><div class='spc'></div></td>
<td><div class='key'>3</div><div class='spc'></div></td>
<td><div class='key'>4</div><div class='spc'></div></td>
<td><div class='key'>5</div><div class='spc'></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The "spc" div appears 18 px high!
Of course, if min-width worked, I wouldn't need the div...
<table class='keyboard'>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><div class='key'>1</div></td>
<td><div class='key'>2</div></td>
<td><div class='key'>3</div></td>
<td><div class='key'>4</div></td>
<td><div class='key'>5</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Any clues?
Just to make this easier, I have put 3 different versions of this code on my website.
http://jsfiddle.net/3htmA/
IE8. your code works perfect.
The HTML TABLE spec uses COL to define column widths. See the following spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.4
Here's an example of how it's used:
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/htmladvanced/tables/
Min-width on table cells works differently than block-level elements. Table cells are controlled on the column level, not on the individual cell level. If a given cell size increases or decreases, the entire column will be affected, unless explicitly controlled by the tag.
Try this:
table.keyboard .key
{
min-width:60px;
width: expression(this.width < 60 ? 60: true);
}
This width expressions is an alternative for min-width, it supposed to be a workaround for older versions of IE.
I think your problem is that your column is determining the width of the element, not the div.
EDIT:
Also check if your browser is not in Compatibility mode.
I have come across this issue and have yet to be able to find a solution to it. With an html e-mail I have found that in some Outlook programs it will collapse the cell. Both 2007/2010 For instance:
<tr>
<td width="10"><img></td>
<td width="80">Copy</td>
<td width="10"><img></td>
</tr>
What happens is that Outlook ignores the width of the middle column's cell. It also doesn't matter if I use CSS for the widths.
<tr>
<td style="width:10px;"><img></td>
<td style="width:80px;">Copy</td>
<td style="width:10px;"><img></td>
</tr>
This has the same results.
The thing I haven't been able to figure out, is the setting in Outlook that causes this collapsing of the cell's width. And typically, it only happens in Outlook for the CEO of our company. I no longer code a cell with copy in it this way anymore as I have a more rock solid way that works, but sometimes marketing thinks they know what they are doing and changes the code on me thinking it will work, when I know it will not on the CEO's computer in Outlook.
Does anybody know what setting in Outlook causes this? I'd love to have this setting on my computer so I don't need to but the CEO to test it.
Can you provide a more extensive code example w/ a whole table and not just one row? Would help give a clue why this is happening.
Anyway, something that works for me in Outlook is to add a top row in the table that forces the column widths to exact heights. A 1x1 transparent GIF, with widths set in addition to table cell widths, seems to work as a 'brute force' method that even Outlook listens to:
<table>
<tr>
<td width="10" height="1"><img width="10" height="1" /></td>
<td width="80" height="1"><img width="80" height="1" /></td>
<td width="10" height="1"><img width="10" height="1" /></td>
</tr>
and then rows beneath that conform to the column widths of that top row.
I was running into this issue in Outlook 2013 for Windows. It worked fine in Outlook for Mac (and Gmail, and pretty much every other modern email client) but in Outlook 2013 for Windows, it would completely collapse everything.
The solution was simple: do NOT put in px if you are declaring a pixel width (with the exception of inline styles). You have to be really old school. Here was my final (working) code:
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td width="1" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff"><img src="#"></td>
<td width="150" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff"><span style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: lighter;"><a style="color: #5f6062; text-decoration: none;" href="#">SECTION 1</a></span></td>
<td width="150" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff"><span style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: lighter;"><a style="color: #5f6062; text-decoration: none; text-decoration: none;" href="#">SECTION 2</a></span></td>
<td width="150" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff"><span style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: lighter;"><a style="color: #5f6062; text-decoration: none;" href="#">SECTION 3</a></span></td>
<td width="149" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff"><span style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: lighter;"><a style="color: #5f6062; text-decoration: none;" href="#">SECTION 4</a></span></td>
</tr>
</table>
Due to current limitations on getting DIV tags to work well across browser platforms for the particular liquid layout I desire, I have opted to use a combination of Tables and DIVs for layout. That being said, a couple of issues remain.
The FIRST issue is that in Firefox, my table row height for my footer is being rendered differently than it is being rendered in IE when using a table with a height of 100%. What happens is that in Firefox the footer row for the table has a height that is greater than the height specified for the table row. This, in turn, throws off my footer layout.
Here is the code for the page:
<html>
<head>
<meta NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="Cold Fusion Applications and Development">
<meta NAME="keywords" CONTENT="cold fusion, coldfusion, sql server, graphic design, houston, texas, tx, web developer, web development, e-commerce, survey, surveys, web applications, php, mysql, access, foxpro, sql, perl, shopping cart, web programming, macromedia, webmaster, html, cfml, xml, 77057, cfware, cfware.com, www.cfware.com, hosting, dhtml, dynamic html, web programmer, graphic designer, website, resume">
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<!-- BODY -->
<body topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" rightmargin="0" leftmargin="0">
<!--TABLE I -->
<table class="fullheight" width="100%" height="100%" min-height="100%" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td height="116" align="center" valign="top">
<!-- HEADER -->
<div class="header">
<div class="lfc">Cornerstone</div>
<div class="rfl"><img src="c4sqlogo.gif" width="295" height="68"></div>
<div class="lf4">Foursquare</div>
</div>
<div class="spacer"></div>
<!-- HEADER END -->
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<!-- CONTENT -->
<div class="content">
<table class="fullheight" width="100%" height="100%">
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr>
<td></td>
<td align="center" valign="middle">
<h1 class="font-black">Cornerstone Foursquare Church</h1>
<br>
<h2>7791 Hillbarn Dr. Houston, TX 77040</h2>
<br>
<h2>(713) 856 - 7773</h2>
<br>
<br>
<h3>Service Times:<br>Sunday Morning Worship 10:30AM<br>Sunday Evening Bible Study 6:00PM
<br>Wednesday Evening Bible Study and Prayer 7:00PM</h3>
</td>
<td></td>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr>
</table>
</div>
<!-- CONTENT END -->
</td>
</tr>
<tfoot height="28"><td height="28" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<!-- FOOTER -->
<div class="clearspacer"><img src="1.gif" height="10" width="1"></div>
<div class="footer"><div class="footertext"> w w w . c 4 s q . o r g </div></div>
<!-- FOOTER END -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- TABLE I END -->
</body>
</html>
And here is the code for the sytle sheet:
html, body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color: :#a02f1d;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
a {
color: #ffffff;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 12;
font-weight: 500;
}
.header {
color: #ff0000;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 760px;
height: 116px;
background-image: url(stripe.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}
.fullheight {
height:100%;}
.lf4 {
float: left;
margin-top: 0px;
clear: left;
width: 240px;
margin-left: 190px;
color: #a02f1d;
font-size: 26px;
font-weight: semi-bold;
font-style: italic;
}
.lfc {
float: left;
margin-top: 8px;
margin-left: 20px;
color: #a02f1d;
font-size: 48px;
font-weight: semi-bold;
font-style: italic;
}
.rfl {
float: right;
margin-top: 24px;
margin-right: 20px;
clear: right;
}
.content {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 760px;
overflow: hidden;
color: :#a02f1d;
}
.spacer {
background-color:#a02f1d;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 760px;
height: 4px;
overflow: hidden;
}
.clearspacer {
background-color:#000000;
}
.footer {
color: #ffffff;
background-color:#a02f1d;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 760px;
height: 30px;
clear: both;
}
.footertext {
color:#ffffff;
margin-top: 6px;
font-size: 12px;
}
The SECOND issue has to do with modifying the existing layout so that there is a centered vertical area of 760px in width that displays in a shade of color different from the surrounding viewport. The primary difficulty is that in order to get my footer to stick to the bottom in both browsers and resize with the viewport, I had to re-adopt a table layout. The current strategy, however, is to use as few nests as possible in order to benefit from the speed and clarity from using DIVs. I would opt to use a DIV layout to the exclusion of a TABLE layout if it were not for the apparently, currently insoluble problem of getting a working sticky-footer to work with a DIV liquid layout.
I know this is quite unrelated, but I recommend that you use the w3c validator to validate your HTML once in a while.
A couple suggestions:
Add a doctype - if use use the right one you can get IE to standards mode rather than quirks mode http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html, so behaviour will be more consistent between IE and other browsers.
As suggested by K4emic - validate your markup.
Add a css reset to zero default margins and paddings, a good starting point here http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/.
You will find that these things will make chasing down layout bugs a lot easier. Otherwise, you just won't know where to start, is it your css, your html, the default browser stylings, the rendering mode of IE......?
As the other responders pointed out you first have to make sure that your document is well formed. That is, it must conform to a DTD. I will point out one issue that is easy to spot:
<tfoot height="28"><td height="28" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<!-- FOOTER -->
<div class="clearspacer"><img src="1.gif" height="10" width="1"></div>
<div class="footer"><div class="footertext"> w w w . c 4 s q . o r g </div></div>
<!-- FOOTER END -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
In this snippet you can see that your
<tfoot>
element is unclosed. It should contain
<tr>
but that is missing.
These small errors are probably causing the inconsistent behavior that you are witnessing. After they have been corrected if you are still getting the behavior then you can look at the browser differences. Some HTML editor like Frontpage and Dreamweaver can be set to out put code that conforms to a DTD and highlight areas that do not conform. I would recommend using one.