iText nested table inside a cell

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I'm creating a PDF with iText version 2.1.0. I have to create a "detail" cell in a cell of a table. I did this nesting a table inside that cell. The problem with this approach is that the borders of the nested table don't touch the borders of the container cell. What I am looking for is for a table nested inside a cell whose borders don't differenciate from the nested table borders. I have a test like this one. I do this inside a loop to add tables inside a cell to the outer table: ``` PdfPCell testCell = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Test")); //I want this border to touch the containerCell borders. testCell.setBorder(PdfPCell.BOTTOM); testTable = new PdfPTable(2); testTable.addCell(testCell); testTable.addCell(testCell); testTable.addCell(testCell); testTable.addCell(testCell); PdfPCell containerCell = new PdfPCell(); containerCell.addElement(testTable); outerTable.addCell(containerCell); ``` Thanks.

Accepted Answer

I think I finally found it:

```
testTable = new PdfPTable(1);
PdfPCell c2;
testTable.addCell("aaaa");
testTable.addCell("bbbb");

c2 = new PdfPCell (testTable);//this line made the difference
c2.setPadding(0);
outerTable.addCell(c2);
```

The trick here is using the table in one of the PdfPCell constructor.

iText nested table inside a cell

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