ItextSharp horizontal alignment in a pdfptable

Question

I try to align the cell content in a pdf table using ItextSharp. Somehow, it doesn't work at all, it's always aligned on the left.

     var pageSize = PageSize.A4;

        if (_pdfSettings.LetterPageSizeEnabled)
        {
            pageSize = PageSize.LETTER;
        }


        var doc = new Document(pageSize);
        PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, stream);
        doc.Open();

        //fonts     

        var normalFont = GetFont();

            normalFont.Color = BaseColor.BLACK;
            normalFont.Size = 14;

       //..titlefont, smallfont,largefont....

         var addressTable = new PdfPTable(1);
         addressTable.WidthPercentage = 100f;

         cell = new PdfPCell();

         cell.AddElement(new Paragraph("Người Gửi", titleFont));
         cell.AddElement(new Paragraph("TAKARA.VN", largeFont));

         cell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_RIGHT;

         addressTable.AddCell(cell);

         doc.Add(addressTable);
         doc.Add(new Paragraph("", normalFont));

Updated: I found an answer

You are confusing text mode and composite mode.

Text mode:

Phrase p = New Phrase("value");
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(p);
cell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
table.AddCell(cell);

Composite mode:

PdfPCell cell = New PdfPCell();
Paragraph p = New Paragraph("value");
p.Alignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
cell.AddElement(p);
table.AddCell(cell);

In text mode the alignment of the cell is used. In composite mode (triggered by using AddElement(), the alignment of the cell is ignored in favor of the alignment of the elements added to the cell.

*Updated: I found an answer* - Please make that an actual answer or (if you found that answer here on stack overflow) mark your question as a duplicate of the question of that answer. — mkl, Jun 12 '17 at 15:02

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 11 '17 at 12:49

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You can use :

cell.HorizontalAlignment = PdfPCell.ALIGN_CENTER;

Or you can align using numbers: 0=Left, 1=Centre, 2=Right

edited Sep 11 '17 at 12:49

Leonardo Alves Machado

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answered Sep 11 '17 at 12:14

Maka

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 12 '17 at 17:32

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I do it like this, and it works for me:

cell.HorizontalAlignment = 1;

answered May 12 '17 at 17:32

shA.t

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 19 '19 at 11:07

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I dont know if this is relevant but check if the rundirection is rtl , if it is you have to remove that parameter. Else it will override align components.

Ps using itextsharp 5

answered Sep 19 '19 at 11:07

AtomicFlee

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ItextSharp horizontal alignment in a pdfptable

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