Whenever I use italic/bold/underline in a table, it will break into another line when generated into word document.

[lvc2202]

For example:
I used bold in table and it can become bold but it break into another line as well when generated into word document.
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:500px"><tbody><tr><td>co<strong>lumn</strong> 1</td><td>column 2</td></tr></tbody></table>
I want to use bold in table without breaking into another line.
Any idea how to fix it ? Please help me thank you.

[lvc2202]

I noticed if there has any tag in between td tag, then it will cause the tag in between td to break into another line. For example: <td>I want to <span>test<span/> it out</td>
it will become as below:
I want to
test
it out

[lvc2202]

So it's there any way to solve this problem ?

[troosan]

might be fixed by #380

[lvc2202]

Hi troosan, I just tried but it still the same.

[lvc2202]

I noticed it didn't go to two of that files which u show me the file in the link.

[lvc2202]

I noticed it goes to phpoffice/phpword/src/PhpWord/Element instead of going to phpoffice/phpword/src/PhpWord/Writer

[lvc2202]

Just now I accidentally tried putting a paragraph tag in the html
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:500px"><tbody><tr><td><p>co<strong>lumn</strong> 1</p></td><td><p>column 2</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

It won't break into next line even if I put bold/italic/underline and this is what I wanted.
So what should I do ?

[lvc2202]

Hi Troosan, is there any way to make the tag (span/bold/italic/underline) to prevent it from breaking into another line in td tag?
Only paragraph tag are allow to break into another line.

[lvc2202]

Pls help me because I need to fix this bug by this end of tmr. Thank you

[lvc2202]

This is the screenshot of the problem

[lvc2202]

Now I finally noticed the main problem is caused by Text.
For example : <strong>I want to </strong><em>test.</em>
This above recognize as Text.
Do u guys have any idea on how to fix this? Because I've been thinking, trying, looking and testing for almost 1 weeks.
Pls help me.

[troosan]

@lvc2202 The following fixes your particular case

In PhpWord/Shared/Html change the parseCell as follows

    private static function parseCell($node, $element, &$styles)
    {
        $cellStyles = self::recursiveParseStylesInHierarchy($node, $styles['cell']);

        $colspan = $node->getAttribute('colspan');
        if (!empty($colspan)) {
            $cellStyles['gridSpan'] = $colspan - 0;
        }
        $cell = $element->addCell(null, $cellStyles);

        return $cell->addTextRun();
    }

Basically, instead of returning a cell, directly add a TextRun in it and return that instead.

As I'm not sure this will not bring other issues, I'll not commit it yet, it needs more testing.

[lvc2202]

Oh I see. I just tried and it show this error "Cannot add Table in TextRun. ".

[lvc2202]

I found another way is by doing this but not sure will it have any issues in the future.
For now everything is working properly.
Btw, I was using ckeditor for insert html to generate word document.
`

    // Use an XPath query to get all td elements
    $xPath = new \DOMXPath($dom);
    $tdTags = $xPath->query('//td');
    
    foreach ($tdTags as $tdTag) {
        // Create a new p element and set attributes
        $p = $dom->createElement('p');

        // Move all children of td into p
        $child = $tdTag->firstChild;
        if($child->nodeName!="p" && $child->nodeName!="ol" && $child->nodeName!="ul" && $child->nodeName!="table"){
            while ($child) {
                $nextChild = $child->nextSibling;
                $p->insertBefore($child);
                $child = $nextChild;
            }

            // Move the p inside the td element
            $tdTag->appendChild($p);
        }
    }

`

[troosan]

Can you provide a sample? Do you have tables inside tables?
I tried the following which works fine with the change I proposed:

<table align="center" style="width: 50%; border: 6px #0000FF double;">
    <thead>
        <tr style="background-color: #FF0000; text-align: center; color: #FFFFFF; font-weight: bold; ">
            <th style="width: 50pt">header a</th>
            <th style="width: 50">header b</th>
            <th style="background-color: #FFFF00; border-width: 12px"><span style="background-color: #00FF00;">header c</span></th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr><td style="border-style: dotted;">1</td><td colspan="2">This cell spans the 2 bellow</td></tr>
        <tr><td>This is <b>bold</b> text</td><td></td><td><img src="resources/_earth.jpg" width="50"/></td></tr>
    </tbody>
</table>