Tuesday, January 4, 2011

TCPDF multipage table page break in multiline cell problem

I had a problem when I was creating PDFs from HTML with TCPDF. Tables spanning multiple pages which contained cells with multiple lines ended up page breaking in the middle of the cells and causing havoc with the automatically generated table header on the next page.

You might have seen other people having this problem:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/forums/forum/435311/topic/3874468.
And http://www.onemoretake.com/2009/03/27/revisited-tcpdf-variable-height-table-rows-with-multicell/ created their own class to circumvent the problem.

The fix now is as nicolaasuni says in http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/forums/forum/435311/topic/3874468?message=8669584, get the latest version of TCPDF.

Alternatively, if you can't upgrade, you can use the nobr attribute which tells TCPDF not to break in the middle of a cell or other HTML tag. Usage:
<tr nobr="true">
<td>your content here</td>
</tr>

Solution found (nicolaasuni again): http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/forums/forum/435311/topic/3457446?message=7762133
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5 comments:

  1. zeroasteriskMay 9, 2011 at 9:38 PM

    excellent, thanks for the info.

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  2. StaucNovember 4, 2011 at 5:49 PM

    Thank You!!!!

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  3. Jaya DiantoNovember 6, 2013 at 3:52 PM

    Thanks for share, its very great solution for me :D

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  4. UnknownAugust 1, 2018 at 8:34 AM

    I have faced same problem in td tag where i am using this propery you can check my post using below link.
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51626066/content-not-breaking-property-nobr-in-tcpdf-is-not-working-properly-in-second

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