Add an attribute on a column

[cedrticgayte]

Hello,

I want to add the With attribute on a column. I did not find the method to do this. Do you have an example of code?

regards

[ay4t]

i think you can use like this

$table->addCellAttributes('row_name', 'col_name', [
        'style' => 'font-size: 1rem; background: #f6ffb0;'
    ]);

[cedrticgayte]

Thanks for this feedback, it doesn't work :Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method Donquixote\Cellbrush\Table\Table::addCellAttributes()

[ay4t]

Oh sorry, this issue has been around for a long time and the repository owner never responded and updated. Some people have also tried to do a pull request but no response.

I also provide a similar repository that I adapted from this repository and there are some additions that might help in the future but I have not included detailed documentation.

You can try to clone from my repository ay4t/htmltable there I have added the addCellAttributes() function

[donquixote]

Hi
I have not touched this package in a long time, and also have no active use case.
Before I deal with the open PRs, now I want to set up CI with github actions first.

• Add testing pipeline with github actions #14

This used travis CI in the past, but I don't even remember how it works..

[donquixote]

As for the specific request:
I wonder why you need an attribute, instead of doing something with css..
but I suppose it is not wrong to have the option at least.

[ay4t]

This repository is awesome, I am very grateful for this library. In my case dealing with reports with PDF output, Because the company I work for requires PDF output. custom column styles are sometimes very necessary. I have tried to use CSS but it didn't work, maybe because I did it wrong but with custom style on the column it makes the display in pdf perfect

[donquixote]

@cedrticgayte

I want to add the With attribute on a column. I did not find the method to do this. Do you have an example of code?

Can you post the desired html output?
You say you want the attribute "on a column", would this mean on the respective cell of every row?

Other parts of this discussion and open PRs talk about attributes for a specific cell, but it seems you want to target the entire column.

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[donquixote]

See this PR, #9
I left some comments there.
I think I would go for setCellAttribute($row, $col, $name, $value).

[donquixote]

See

• Issue #17: Add attribute on specific cell #19
• Issue #13: [breaking] Column attribute interface changes #26
• Issue #24: Row attribute #27

Please help testing and reviewing!

We need to be careful with changes to interfaces, these can break existing implementations that implement these interfaces.
So perhaps these need a new major version? Not sure.

[donquixote]

@ay4t

custom column styles are sometimes very necessary.

If this is about styles, do we need special handling for them?
E.g. ->addStyle('width', '100px');, instead of ->setAttribute('style', '100px');.
This would allow merging styles from different sources, e.g. column style + cell style.

I have tried to use CSS but it didn't work, maybe because I did it wrong

I have done html to pdf in the past.
There are php packages which do it, or you can let your headless chrome/chromium do it.
In both cases, in my experience, CSS did work.
The main problem I faced was with paging, an support for the print css.
Maybe you do face problems with specific selectors..

[cedrticgayte]

Thanks for the feedback and for your component which is great.

My code only requires that I add attributes to columns enbtieere and/or cells. My code requires:

• that I add an attribute such as Width to a column
• that I add ids to cells

setCellAttribute($row, $col, $name, $value). would be ideal