Working with Table in Tagged PDFs

Create Table in Tagged PDF

Aspose.PDF for .NET allows creating a table in Tagged PDF documents. For working with tables, the API provides TableElement class. In order to create a table, you can use CreateTableElement() method of ITaggedContent interface. Furthermore, you can use CreateTHead(), CreateTBody() and CreateTFoot() methods of TableElement class for creating Table Head, Table Body, and Table Foot respectively. To create a table row, you can use CreateTR() method of TableRowCollectionElement class. You can also check if the created PDF document is PDF/UA compliance using the Validate() method of Document class.

The following code snippet also work with Aspose.PDF.Drawing library.

The following code snippet shows, how to create a table in the Tagged PDF document:

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-pdf/Aspose.PDF-for-.NET
// The path to the documents directory.
string dataDir = RunExamples.GetDataDir_AsposePdf_WorkingDocuments();

// Create document
Document document = new Document();
ITaggedContent taggedContent = document.TaggedContent;

taggedContent.SetTitle("Example table");
taggedContent.SetLanguage("en-US");

// Get root structure element
StructureElement rootElement = taggedContent.RootElement;


TableElement tableElement = taggedContent.CreateTableElement();
rootElement.AppendChild(tableElement);

tableElement.Border = new BorderInfo(BorderSide.All, 1.2F, Color.DarkBlue);

TableTHeadElement tableTHeadElement = tableElement.CreateTHead();
TableTBodyElement tableTBodyElement = tableElement.CreateTBody();
TableTFootElement tableTFootElement = tableElement.CreateTFoot();
int rowCount = 50;
int colCount = 4;
int rowIndex;
int colIndex;

TableTRElement headTrElement = tableTHeadElement.CreateTR();
headTrElement.AlternativeText = "Head Row";

headTrElement.BackgroundColor = Color.LightGray;

for (colIndex = 0; colIndex < colCount; colIndex++)
{
    TableTHElement thElement = headTrElement.CreateTH();
    thElement.SetText(String.Format("Head {0}", colIndex));

    thElement.BackgroundColor = Color.GreenYellow;
    thElement.Border = new BorderInfo(BorderSide.All, 4.0F, Color.Gray);

    thElement.IsNoBorder = true;
    thElement.Margin = new MarginInfo(16.0, 2.0, 8.0, 2.0);

    thElement.Alignment = HorizontalAlignment.Right;
}

for (rowIndex = 0; rowIndex < rowCount; rowIndex++)
{
    TableTRElement trElement = tableTBodyElement.CreateTR();
    trElement.AlternativeText = String.Format("Row {0}", rowIndex);

    for (colIndex = 0; colIndex < colCount; colIndex++)
    {
        int colSpan = 1;
        int rowSpan = 1;

        if (colIndex == 1 && rowIndex == 1)
        {
            colSpan = 2;
            rowSpan = 2;
        }
        else if (colIndex == 2 && (rowIndex == 1 || rowIndex == 2))
        {
            continue;
        }
        else if (rowIndex == 2 && (colIndex == 1 || colIndex == 2))
        {
            continue;
        }

        TableTDElement tdElement = trElement.CreateTD();
        tdElement.SetText(String.Format("Cell [{0}, {1}]", rowIndex, colIndex));


        tdElement.BackgroundColor = Color.Yellow;
        tdElement.Border = new BorderInfo(BorderSide.All, 4.0F, Color.Gray);

        tdElement.IsNoBorder = false;
        tdElement.Margin = new MarginInfo(8.0, 2.0, 8.0, 2.0);

        tdElement.Alignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center;

        TextState cellTextState = new TextState();
        cellTextState.ForegroundColor = Color.DarkBlue;
        cellTextState.FontSize = 7.5F;
        cellTextState.FontStyle = FontStyles.Bold;
        cellTextState.Font = FontRepository.FindFont("Arial");
        tdElement.DefaultCellTextState = cellTextState;

        tdElement.IsWordWrapped = true;
        tdElement.VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Center;

        tdElement.ColSpan = colSpan;
        tdElement.RowSpan = rowSpan;
    }
}

TableTRElement footTrElement = tableTFootElement.CreateTR();
footTrElement.AlternativeText = "Foot Row";

footTrElement.BackgroundColor = Color.LightSeaGreen;

for (colIndex = 0; colIndex < colCount; colIndex++)
{
    TableTDElement tdElement = footTrElement.CreateTD();
    tdElement.SetText(String.Format("Foot {0}", colIndex));

    tdElement.Alignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center;
    tdElement.StructureTextState.FontSize = 7F;
    tdElement.StructureTextState.FontStyle = FontStyles.Bold;
}


StructureAttributes tableAttributes = tableElement.Attributes.GetAttributes(AttributeOwnerStandard.Table);
StructureAttribute summaryAttribute = new StructureAttribute(AttributeKey.Summary);
summaryAttribute.SetStringValue("The summary text for table");
tableAttributes.SetAttribute(summaryAttribute);


// Save Tagged Pdf Document
document.Save(dataDir + "CreateTableElement.pdf");

// Checking PDF/UA compliance
document = new Document(dataDir + "CreateTableElement.pdf");
bool isPdfUaCompliance = document.Validate(dataDir + "table.xml", PdfFormat.PDF_UA_1);
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("PDF/UA compliance: {0}", isPdfUaCompliance));

Style Table Element

Aspose.PDF for .NET allows styling a table in Tagged PDF document. In order to style a table, you can create a table using CreateTableElement() method of ITaggedContent interface and set style table using properties of TableElement class. The following is the list properties you can use to style a table:

• BackgroundColor
• Border
• Alignment
• CornerStyle
• Broken
• ColumnAdjustment
• ColumnWidths
• DefaultCellBorder
• DefaultCellPadding
• DefaultCellTextState
• DefaultColumnWidth
• IsBroken
• IsBordersIncluded
• Left
• Top

The following code snippet shows how to style a table in Tagged PDF document:

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-pdf/Aspose.PDF-for-.NET
// The path to the documents directory.
string dataDir = RunExamples.GetDataDir_AsposePdf_WorkingDocuments();
// Create document
Document document = new Document();
ITaggedContent taggedContent = document.TaggedContent;

taggedContent.SetTitle("Example table style");
taggedContent.SetLanguage("en-US");

// Get root structure element
StructureElement rootElement = taggedContent.RootElement;

// Create table structure element
TableElement tableElement = taggedContent.CreateTableElement();
rootElement.AppendChild(tableElement);

tableElement.BackgroundColor = Color.Beige;
tableElement.Border = new BorderInfo(BorderSide.All, 0.80F, Color.Gray);
tableElement.Alignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center;
tableElement.Broken = TableBroken.Vertical;
tableElement.ColumnAdjustment = ColumnAdjustment.AutoFitToWindow;
tableElement.ColumnWidths = "80 80 80 80 80";
tableElement.DefaultCellBorder = new BorderInfo(BorderSide.All, 0.50F, Color.DarkBlue);
tableElement.DefaultCellPadding = new MarginInfo(16.0, 2.0, 8.0, 2.0);
tableElement.DefaultCellTextState.ForegroundColor = Color.DarkCyan;
tableElement.DefaultCellTextState.FontSize = 8F;
tableElement.DefaultColumnWidth = "70";

tableElement.IsBroken = false;
tableElement.IsBordersIncluded = true;

tableElement.Left = 0F;
tableElement.Top = 40F;

tableElement.RepeatingColumnsCount = 2;
tableElement.RepeatingRowsCount = 3;
TextState rowStyle = new TextState();
rowStyle.BackgroundColor = Color.LightCoral;
tableElement.RepeatingRowsStyle = rowStyle;

TableTHeadElement tableTHeadElement = tableElement.CreateTHead();
TableTBodyElement tableTBodyElement = tableElement.CreateTBody();
TableTFootElement tableTFootElement = tableElement.CreateTFoot();
int rowCount = 10;
int colCount = 5;
int rowIndex;
int colIndex;

TableTRElement headTrElement = tableTHeadElement.CreateTR();
headTrElement.AlternativeText = "Head Row";

for (colIndex = 0; colIndex < colCount; colIndex++)
{
    TableTHElement thElement = headTrElement.CreateTH();
    thElement.SetText(String.Format("Head {0}", colIndex));
}

for (rowIndex = 0; rowIndex < rowCount; rowIndex++)
{
    TableTRElement trElement = tableTBodyElement.CreateTR();
    trElement.AlternativeText = String.Format("Row {0}", rowIndex);

    for (colIndex = 0; colIndex < colCount; colIndex++)
    {
        TableTDElement tdElement = trElement.CreateTD();
        tdElement.SetText(String.Format("Cell [{0}, {1}]", rowIndex, colIndex));
    }
}

TableTRElement footTrElement = tableTFootElement.CreateTR();
footTrElement.AlternativeText = "Foot Row";

for (colIndex = 0; colIndex < colCount; colIndex++)
{
    TableTDElement tdElement = footTrElement.CreateTD();
    tdElement.SetText(String.Format("Foot {0}", colIndex));
}

// Save Tagged Pdf Document
document.Save(dataDir + "StyleTableElement.pdf");

// Checking PDF/UA compliance
document = new Document(dataDir + "StyleTableElement.pdf");
bool isPdfUaCompliance = document.Validate(dataDir + "StyleTableElement.xml", PdfFormat.PDF_UA_1);
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("PDF/UA compliance: {0}", isPdfUaCompliance));

Style Table Row

Aspose.PDF for .NET allows styling a table row in Tagged PDF document. In order to style a table row, you can use the properties of TableTRElement class. The following is the list properties you can use to style a table row:

• BackgroundColor
• Border
• DefaultCellBorder
• MinRowHeight
• FixedRowHeight
• IsInNewPage
• IsRowBroken
• DefaultCellTextState
• DefaultCellPadding
• VerticalAlignment

The following code snippet shows how to style a table row in the Tagged PDF document:

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-pdf/Aspose.PDF-for-.NET
// The path to the documents directory.
string dataDir = RunExamples.GetDataDir_AsposePdf_WorkingDocuments();
// Create document
Document document = new Document();
ITaggedContent taggedContent = document.TaggedContent;

taggedContent.SetTitle("Example table row style");
taggedContent.SetLanguage("en-US");

// Get root structure element
StructureElement rootElement = taggedContent.RootElement;

// Create table structure element
TableElement tableElement = taggedContent.CreateTableElement();
rootElement.AppendChild(tableElement);

TableTHeadElement tableTHeadElement = tableElement.CreateTHead();
TableTBodyElement tableTBodyElement = tableElement.CreateTBody();
TableTFootElement tableTFootElement = tableElement.CreateTFoot();
int rowCount = 7;
int colCount = 3;
int rowIndex;
int colIndex;

TableTRElement headTrElement = tableTHeadElement.CreateTR();
headTrElement.AlternativeText = "Head Row";

for (colIndex = 0; colIndex < colCount; colIndex++)
{
    TableTHElement thElement = headTrElement.CreateTH();
    thElement.SetText(String.Format("Head {0}", colIndex));
}

for (rowIndex = 0; rowIndex < rowCount; rowIndex++)
{
    TableTRElement trElement = tableTBodyElement.CreateTR();
    trElement.AlternativeText = String.Format("Row {0}", rowIndex);

    trElement.BackgroundColor = Color.LightGoldenrodYellow;
    trElement.Border = new BorderInfo(BorderSide.All, 0.75F, Color.DarkGray);

    trElement.DefaultCellBorder = new BorderInfo(BorderSide.All, 0.50F, Color.Blue);
    trElement.MinRowHeight = 100.0;
    trElement.FixedRowHeight = 120.0;
    trElement.IsInNewPage = (rowIndex % 3 == 1);
    trElement.IsRowBroken = true;

    TextState cellTextState = new TextState();
    cellTextState.ForegroundColor = Color.Red;
    trElement.DefaultCellTextState = cellTextState;

    trElement.DefaultCellPadding = new MarginInfo(16.0, 2.0, 8.0, 2.0);
    trElement.VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Bottom;

    for (colIndex = 0; colIndex < colCount; colIndex++)
    {
        TableTDElement tdElement = trElement.CreateTD();
        tdElement.SetText(String.Format("Cell [{0}, {1}]", rowIndex, colIndex));
    }
}

TableTRElement footTrElement = tableTFootElement.CreateTR();
footTrElement.AlternativeText = "Foot Row";

for (colIndex = 0; colIndex < colCount; colIndex++)
{
    TableTDElement tdElement = footTrElement.CreateTD();
    tdElement.SetText(String.Format("Foot {0}", colIndex));
}

// Save Tagged Pdf Document
document.Save(dataDir + "StyleTableRow.pdf");

// Checking PDF/UA compliance
document = new Document(dataDir + "StyleTableRow.pdf");
bool isPdfUaCompliance = document.Validate(dataDir + "StyleTableRow.xml", PdfFormat.PDF_UA_1);
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("PDF/UA compliance: {0}", isPdfUaCompliance));

Style Table Cell

Aspose.PDF for .NET allows styling a table cell in Tagged PDF document. In order to style a table cell, you can use the properties of TableCellElement class. The following is the list properties you can use to style a table cell:

• BackgroundColor
• Border
• IsNoBorder
• Margin
• Alignment
• DefaultCellTextState
• IsWordWrapped
• VerticalAlignment
• ColSpan
• RowSpan

The following code snippet shows how to style a table cell in the Tagged PDF document:

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-pdf/Aspose.PDF-for-.NET
// The path to the documents directory.
string dataDir = RunExamples.GetDataDir_AsposePdf_WorkingDocuments();
// Create document
Document document = new Document();
ITaggedContent taggedContent = document.TaggedContent;

taggedContent.SetTitle("Example table cell style");
taggedContent.SetLanguage("en-US");

// Get root structure element
StructureElement rootElement = taggedContent.RootElement;

// Create table structure element
TableElement tableElement = taggedContent.CreateTableElement();
rootElement.AppendChild(tableElement);

TableTHeadElement tableTHeadElement = tableElement.CreateTHead();
TableTBodyElement tableTBodyElement = tableElement.CreateTBody();
TableTFootElement tableTFootElement = tableElement.CreateTFoot();
int rowCount = 4;
int colCount = 4;
int rowIndex;
int colIndex;

TableTRElement headTrElement = tableTHeadElement.CreateTR();
headTrElement.AlternativeText = "Head Row";

for (colIndex = 0; colIndex < colCount; colIndex++)
{
    TableTHElement thElement = headTrElement.CreateTH();
    thElement.SetText(String.Format("Head {0}", colIndex));

    thElement.BackgroundColor = Color.GreenYellow;
    thElement.Border = new BorderInfo(BorderSide.All, 4.0F, Color.Gray);

    thElement.IsNoBorder = true;
    thElement.Margin = new MarginInfo(16.0, 2.0, 8.0, 2.0);

    thElement.Alignment = HorizontalAlignment.Right;
}

for (rowIndex = 0; rowIndex < rowCount; rowIndex++)
{
    TableTRElement trElement = tableTBodyElement.CreateTR();
    trElement.AlternativeText = String.Format("Row {0}", rowIndex);

    for (colIndex = 0; colIndex < colCount; colIndex++)
    {
        int colSpan = 1;
        int rowSpan = 1;

        if (colIndex == 1 && rowIndex == 1)
        {
            colSpan = 2;
            rowSpan = 2;
        }
        else if (colIndex == 2 && (rowIndex == 1 || rowIndex == 2))
        {
            continue;
        }
        else if (rowIndex == 2 && (colIndex == 1 || colIndex == 2))
        {
            continue;
        }

        TableTDElement tdElement = trElement.CreateTD();
        tdElement.SetText(String.Format("Cell [{0}, {1}]", rowIndex, colIndex));


        tdElement.BackgroundColor = Color.Yellow;
        tdElement.Border = new BorderInfo(BorderSide.All, 4.0F, Color.Gray);

        tdElement.IsNoBorder = false;
        tdElement.Margin = new MarginInfo(8.0, 2.0, 8.0, 2.0);

        tdElement.Alignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center;

        TextState cellTextState = new TextState();
        cellTextState.ForegroundColor = Color.DarkBlue;
        cellTextState.FontSize = 7.5F;
        cellTextState.FontStyle = FontStyles.Bold;
        cellTextState.Font = FontRepository.FindFont("Arial");
        tdElement.DefaultCellTextState = cellTextState;

        tdElement.IsWordWrapped = true;
        tdElement.VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Center;

        tdElement.ColSpan = colSpan;
        tdElement.RowSpan = rowSpan;
    }
}

TableTRElement footTrElement = tableTFootElement.CreateTR();
footTrElement.AlternativeText = "Foot Row";

for (colIndex = 0; colIndex < colCount; colIndex++)
{
    TableTDElement tdElement = footTrElement.CreateTD();
    tdElement.SetText(String.Format("Foot {0}", colIndex));
}

// Save Tagged Pdf Document
document.Save(dataDir + "StyleTableCell.pdf");

// Checking PDF/UA compliance
document = new Document(dataDir + "StyleTableCell.pdf");
bool isPdfUaCompliance = document.Validate(dataDir + "StyleTableCell.xml", PdfFormat.PDF_UA_1);
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("PDF/UA compliance: {0}", isPdfUaCompliance));