How to use CSS proprieties in iTextSharp

Question

How can I use CSS properties such as padding, cell-spacing, background color, etc... in iTextSharp?

Answer 1

You can Use PdfPTable

PdfPTable headerTbl = new PdfPTable(2);   //Create table with 2 Cols
headerTbl.SetWidths(new float[] { 4, 1 });    //1st having size of 4 and other 1
headerTbl.TotalWidth = doc.PageSize.Width;   //Total Width of the table
headerTbl.SpacingBefore = 20f;
headerTbl.SpacingAfter = 30f;

You can Create Cells inside PdfPTable Using this

PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell
cell.Colspan = 3;                  //Colspan
cell.HorizontalAlignment = 1; //0=Left, 1=Centre, 2=Right  Horizontal alignment 

References

1. http://jwcooney.com/2013/08/23/itextsharp-pdfptable-basic-example/
2. http://www.mikesdotnetting.com/article/86/itextsharp-introducing-tables
3. http://www.mikesdotnetting.com/article/89/itextsharp-page-layout-with-columns

Answer 2

There are plenty of Java examples available that explain how to use XML Worker and CSS: http://itextpdf.com/sandbox/xmlworker

Some of these examples were written in answer to StackOverflow questions about iTextSharp:

• How to get particular html table contents to write it in pdf using itext (See ParseHtmlTable1 and ParseHtmlTable2 for a table with padding defined for th and td tags.)
• Element inside class CSS definition not applied using ITextSharp (5.5.1) XHTML to PDF (See ParseHtmlTable3 for an example where we define a green border in CSS.)
• RowSpan does not work in iTextSharp? (See ParseHtmlTable4 for an example where we define a rowspan and a colspan, including a background color for cells.)
• how can I add cellspacing to pdftable when parsing html using XMLWorker and itext (See ParseHtmlTable5 for an example where we use CSS to define a border-spacing and a padding.)

In a way, your question is not eligible for StackOverflow because it is too broad (you don't show what you've tried) and it is a duplicate of other questions.

Please make sure that you consult the official documentation, as well StackOverflow questions that have been answered (and accepted) in the past before creating a new question.