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In this core java tutorial we will learn How to Set Cell Background Colour In Pdf generated Table using iText library - core java tutorial in Java with program and examples.

We will create PdfPTable (com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable) and then create cells ( com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPCell) and then use setBackgroundColor to set the Cell Background Colour In Pdf generated Table in java in pdf in itext in java.

Also read : How to Create the Table In Pdf in java - iText java tutorial

Download jars required to execute program >

iText.jar

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Program/Example - How to Set Cell Background Colour In Pdf generated Table in java - Using iText library - core java tutorial in Java

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import java.io.OutputStream;

import com.itextpdf.text.BaseColor;

import com.itextpdf.text.Document;

import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;

import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPCell;

import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable;

import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

/**

* How to set the Cell Background Colour In Pdf generated Table Example

* Using iText library - core java tutorial

public class CellBackgroundColourInPdfTableExample {

public static void main(String[] args) {

try {

String pdfFilePath = "e:/Cell Background Colour In Pdf Table Example.pdf";

OutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(new File(pdfFilePath));

Document document = new Document();

PdfWriter.getInstance(document, fos);

document.open();

PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(2); // Create 2 columns in table

PdfPCell cell1 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph(

"Cell 1 - GREEN Background"));

/* Set Background colour */

cell1.setBackgroundColor(BaseColor.GREEN);

PdfPCell cell2 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Cell 2"));

table.addCell(cell1);

table.addCell(cell2);

document.add(table);

document.close();

fos.close();

System.out.println("PDF created in >> " + pdfFilePath);

} catch (Exception e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

/* Output of above program

PDF created in >> e:/Cell Background Colour In Pdf Table Example.pdf

PDF formed after executing above java program(How to Set Cell Background Colour In Pdf Table in java) will look like this >

Summary -

So in this core java tutorial we learned how to Set Cell Background Colour In Pdf generated Table using iText library - core java tutorial in Java with program and examples. We created PdfPTable (com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable) and then created cells ( com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPCell) and then used setBackgroundColor to set the Cell Background Colour In Pdf generated Table in java in pdf in itext in java.

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References >

http://api.itextpdf.com/itext/com/itextpdf/text/package-tree.html

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