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Removing margin (whitespace) between table cells [message #658791]

Wed, 09 March 2011 14:23

Don Wood
Messages: 32
Registered: February 2010
Location: Pennsylvania

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Does anyone know how to remove the margin between borders in a table's row cells? I have a report (17 inches wide) with 32 columns. In the BIRT designer I've set the margin to 0; yet, there is (at least) several pixels of white space between each cell when viewed as HTML. And this whitespace seems to be expanded even further when displayed as PDF. This report already exists in a client/server app so the users are accustomed to a certain look. From BIRT, it just doesn't look as neat and compact. Thus the question.

FYI - I'm using BIRT 2.3.2

Thanks for any help.

Don

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Re: Removing margin (whitespace) between table cells [message #658991 is a reply to message #658791]

Thu, 10 March 2011 10:57

Jason Weathersby
Messages: 9167
Registered: July 2009

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Have you set the padding to 0 on the cell and the data items? Look at
the properties view which will have the padding entry.

Jason

On 3/9/2011 2:23 PM, Don wrote:
> Does anyone know how to remove the margin between borders in a table's
> row cells? I have a report (17 inches wide) with 32 columns. In the BIRT
> designer I've set the margin to 0; yet, there is (at least) several
> pixels of white space between each cell when viewed as HTML. And this
> whitespace seems to be expanded even further when displayed as PDF. This
> report already exists in a client/server app so the users are accustomed
> to a certain look. From BIRT, it just doesn't look as neat and compact.
> Thus the question.
>
> Thanks for any help.

Jason Weathersby

BIRT Exchange

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Re: Removing margin (whitespace) between table cells [message #659036 is a reply to message #658791]

Thu, 10 March 2011 13:33

Don Wood
Messages: 32
Registered: February 2010
Location: Pennsylvania

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Jason,

Thanks so much for your help. I had set the padding for the content to 0; however, I was unaware that the cell had a padding as well. I've learned something. I mistakenly assumed the content's padding affected the <td> padding as well which is why I was focusing on the margin attribute.

Thanks again.

-Don

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