I got struck for the last two days, to set a column width for generating PDF using jsPDF.

I am able to generate pdf using jsPDF lib from html table, but i am getting problem of overlapping columns. Because I want to display 20 columns in the sheet. I have changed the options portrait to landscape and set the width 5000 in exporting script options as well as html table width.

Please help me, to set the pdf column width from jsPDF. Thanks

I got struck for the last two days, to set a column width for generating PDF using jsPDF.

I am able to generate pdf using jsPDF lib from html table, but i am getting problem of overlapping columns. Because I want to display 20 columns in the sheet. I have changed the options portrait to landscape and set the width 5000 in exporting script options as well as html table width.

Please help me, to set the pdf column width from jsPDF. Thanks

• javascript
• jquery
• html
• jspdf

1 Answer 1

I had same problem 4 days back and was able to fix it.. I have provided sample code below for you to understand..

I am assuming that the requirement is to export a html table (mentioned below as table1, that has 3 or more rows) to PDF format. To which we will be setting cell/column width and additionally font and font types for those 3+ rows..

First row would be Header - so bold is applied.. I have applied different styles for 2nd and 3rd rows for understanding styles available.. If you want to apply different column width, for each of the columns - you can do that as well..

Hope the following code is readable and self explanatory. Let me know if you have any questions

 $(document).on("click", "#btnExportToPDF", function () { 

        var table1 = 
        tableToJson($('#table1').get(0)),
        cellWidth = 35,
        rowCount = 0,
        cellContents,
        leftMargin = 2,
        topMargin = 12,
        topMarginTable = 55,
        headerRowHeight = 13,
        rowHeight = 9,

         l = {
         orientation: 'l',
         unit: 'mm',
         format: 'a3',
         compress: true,
         fontSize: 8,
         lineHeight: 1,
         autoSize: false,
         printHeaders: true
     };

    var doc = new jsPDF(l, '', '', '');

    doc.setProperties({
        title: 'Test PDF Document',
        subject: 'This is the subject',
        author: 'author',
        keywords: 'generated, javascript, web 2.0, ajax',
        creator: 'author'
    });

    doc.cellInitialize();

   $.each(table1, function (i, row)
    {

        rowCount++;

        $.each(row, function (j, cellContent) {

            if (rowCount == 1) {
                doc.margins = 1;
                doc.setFont("helvetica");
                doc.setFontType("bold");
                doc.setFontSize(9);

                doc.cell(leftMargin, topMargin, cellWidth, headerRowHeight, cellContent, i)
            }
            else if (rowCount == 2) {
                doc.margins = 1;
                doc.setFont("times ");
                doc.setFontType("italic");  // or for normal font type use ------ doc.setFontType("normal");
                doc.setFontSize(8);                    

                doc.cell(leftMargin, topMargin, cellWidth, rowHeight, cellContent, i); 
            }
            else {

                doc.margins = 1;
                doc.setFont("courier ");
                doc.setFontType("bolditalic ");
                doc.setFontSize(6.5);                    

                doc.cell(leftMargin, topMargin, cellWidth, rowHeight, cellContent, i);  // 1st=left margin    2nd parameter=top margin,     3rd=row cell width      4th=Row height
            }
        })
    })

doc.save('sample Report.pdf');  })




function tableToJson(table) {
var data = [];

// first row needs to be headers
var headers = [];
for (var i=0; i<table.rows[0].cells.length; i++) {
    headers[i] = table.rows[0].cells[i].innerHTML.toLowerCase().replace(/ /gi,'');
}

// go through cells
for (var i=1; i<table.rows.length; i++) {

    var tableRow = table.rows[i];
    var rowData = {};

    for (var j=0; j<tableRow.cells.length; j++) {

        rowData[ headers[j] ] = tableRow.cells[j].innerHTML;

    }

    data.push(rowData);
}       

return data; }