Border Settings with C++

Adding Borders to Cells

Microsoft Excel allows users to format cells by adding borders. The type of border depends on where it is added. For example, a top border is one added to the top position of a cell. Users can also modify the borders' line style and color.

With Aspose.Cells, developers can add borders and customize what they look like in the same flexible way as in Microsoft Excel.

Adding Borders to Cells

Aspose.Cells provides a class, Workbook that represents a Microsoft Excel file. The Workbook class contains a Worksheets collection that allows access to each worksheet in the Excel file. A worksheet is represented by the Worksheet class. The Worksheet class provides the Cells collection. Each item in the Cells collection represents an object of the Cell class.

Aspose.Cells provides the GetStyle method in the Cell class. The SetStyle method is used to set a cell’s formatting style. The Style class provides properties for adding borders to cells.

Adding Borders to a Cell

Developers can add borders to a cell by using the Style object’s GetBorders() collection. The border type is passed as an index to the GetBorders() collection. All border types are pre-defined in the BorderType enumeration.

Border enumeration

Border Types	Description
BottomBorder	A bottom border line
DiagonalDown	A diagonal line from top left to right bottom
DiagonalUp	A diagonal line from bottom left to right top
LeftBorder	A left border line
RightBorder	A right border line
TopBorder	A top border line

The GetBorders() collection stores all borders. Each border in the GetBorders() collection is represented by a Border object which provides two properties, GetColor() and GetLineStyle() to set a border’s line color and style respectively.

To set a border’s line color, select a color using the Color enumeration and assign it to the Border object’s Color property.

The border’s line style is set by selecting a line style from the CellBorderType enumeration.

CellBorderType enumeration

Line Styles	Description
DashDot	Thin dash-dotted line
DashDotDot	Thin dash-dot-dotted line
Dashed	Dashed line
Dotted	Dotted line
Double	Double line
Hair	Hairline
MediumDashDot	Medium dash-dotted line
MediumDashDotDot	Medium dash-dot-dotted line
MediumDashed	Medium dashed line
None	No line
Medium	Medium line
SlantedDashDot	Slanted medium dash-dotted line
Thick	Thick line
Thin	Thin line

Select one of the line styles and then assign it to the Border object’s GetLineStyle() property.

#include <iostream>
#include "Aspose.Cells.h"
using namespace Aspose::Cells;

int main()
{
    Aspose::Cells::Startup();

    U16String srcDir(u"..\\Data\\01_SourceDirectory\\");
    U16String outDir(u"..\\Data\\02_OutputDirectory\\");

    Workbook workbook;
    Worksheet worksheet = workbook.GetWorksheets().Get(0);
    Cell cell = worksheet.GetCells().Get(u"A1");
    cell.PutValue(u"Visit Aspose!");

    Style style = cell.GetStyle();

    style.GetBorders().Get(BorderType::TopBorder).SetLineStyle(CellBorderType::Thick);
    style.GetBorders().Get(BorderType::TopBorder).SetColor(Color::Black());

    style.GetBorders().Get(BorderType::BottomBorder).SetLineStyle(CellBorderType::Thick);
    style.GetBorders().Get(BorderType::BottomBorder).SetColor(Color::Black());

    style.GetBorders().Get(BorderType::LeftBorder).SetLineStyle(CellBorderType::Thick);
    style.GetBorders().Get(BorderType::LeftBorder).SetColor(Color::Black());

    style.GetBorders().Get(BorderType::RightBorder).SetLineStyle(CellBorderType::Thick);
    style.GetBorders().Get(BorderType::RightBorder).SetColor(Color::Black());

    cell.SetStyle(style);

    workbook.Save(outDir + u"book1.out.xls");
    std::cout << "Excel file saved successfully!" << std::endl;

    Aspose::Cells::Cleanup();
}

You should set both line style and color at the same time. The two diagonal border lines should have the same line style and color.

Adding Borders to a Range of Cells

It is also possible to add borders to a range of cells rather than just a single cell. To do so, first, create a range of cells by calling the Cells collection’s CreateRange method. It takes the following parameters:

First Row, the first row of the range.
First Column, represents the first column of the range.
Number of Rows, the number of rows in the range.
Number of Columns, the number of columns in the range.

The CreateRange method returns a Range object, which contains the specified range of cells. The Range object provides a SetOutlineBorder method that takes the following parameters to add a border to the range of cells:

Border Type, the border type, selected from the BorderType enumeration.
Line Style, the border line style, selected from the CellBorderType enumeration.
Color, the line color, selected from the Color enumeration.

#include <iostream>
#include "Aspose.Cells.h"
using namespace Aspose::Cells;

int main()
{
    Aspose::Cells::Startup();

    // Source directory path
    U16String srcDir(u"..\\Data\\01_SourceDirectory\\");

    // Output directory path
    U16String outDir(u"..\\Data\\02_OutputDirectory\\");

    // Create workbook
    Workbook workbook;

    // Obtain the reference of the first (default) worksheet
    Worksheet worksheet = workbook.GetWorksheets().Get(0);

    // Accessing the "A1" cell from the worksheet
    Cell cell = worksheet.GetCells().Get(u"A1");

    // Adding some value to the "A1" cell
    cell.PutValue(u"Hello World From Aspose");

    // Creating a range of cells starting from "A1" cell to 3rd column in a row
    Range range = worksheet.GetCells().CreateRange(0, 0, 1, 3);

    // Adding a thick top border with blue line
    range.SetOutlineBorder(BorderType::TopBorder, CellBorderType::Thick, Color::Blue());

    // Adding a thick bottom border with blue line
    range.SetOutlineBorder(BorderType::BottomBorder, CellBorderType::Thick, Color::Blue());

    // Adding a thick left border with blue line
    range.SetOutlineBorder(BorderType::LeftBorder, CellBorderType::Thick, Color::Blue());

    // Adding a thick right border with blue line
    range.SetOutlineBorder(BorderType::RightBorder, CellBorderType::Thick, Color::Blue());

    // Saving the Excel file
    workbook.Save(outDir + u"book1.out.xls");

    std::cout << "Excel file created successfully!" << std::endl;

    Aspose::Cells::Cleanup();
}

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