I'm using mvc4,here I'm using razorpdf to convert my view to pdf, but I'm getting an error - Unable to cast object of type iTextSharp.text.Paragraph to type iTextSharp.text.Table.
This is the sample code I'm using:
@{
Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_PdfLayout.cshtml";
}
<html>
<body>
<table border="1" width='500' bordercolor="RED"><tr><td colspan="3" bgcolor="LightGreen" align="center" valign="top">SSLC Marks Sheet 2013</td></tr></table></body>
</html>
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im sitting with the same problem, it seems that u cant use traditionally used css in ur html contents... only some inline styles settings work.. here is an example of what i did to get some styling in my generated table....
And by the way, my Layout is set to null (Layout = null) or else it wont work... i did it this way because i dont have knowledge in making an table with syntax
<itext creationdate="@DateTime.Now.ToString()" producer="RazorPDF">
<table>
<tr>
<th align="center">@Model.CampaignName</th>
</tr>
</table>
<h4>@ViewBag.CampaignName</h4>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3">
<thead>
<tr>
<td colspan="5" align="center">
<strong>Delivery List</strong>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>@Html.DisplayNameFor(m => m.DeliveryList.FirstOrDefault().ShopName)</th>
<th width="35%">@Html.DisplayNameFor(m => m.DeliveryList.FirstOrDefault().MediaTypeName)</th>
<th>@Html.DisplayNameFor(m => m.DeliveryList.FirstOrDefault().Count)</th>
<th>@Html.DisplayNameFor(m => m.DeliveryList.FirstOrDefault().Width)</th>
<th>@Html.DisplayNameFor(m => m.DeliveryList.FirstOrDefault().Height)</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
@foreach (var item in Model.DeliveryList)
{
<tr>
<th>@Html.DisplayFor(m => item.ShopName) - @item.ShopAddress</th>
<td>@Html.DisplayFor(m => item.MediaTypeName)</td>
<th>@Html.DisplayFor(m => item.Count)</th>
<td>@Html.DisplayFor(m => item.Width)</td>
<td>@Html.DisplayFor(m => item.Height)</td>
</tr>
}
</tbody>
</table>
<br />
<table border="1" cellpadding="3">
<thead>
<tr>
<td colspan="5" align="center">
<strong>Production List</strong>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>@Html.DisplayNameFor(m => m.ProductionList.FirstOrDefault().MediaTypeName)</th>
<th width="45%">@Html.DisplayNameFor(m => m.ProductionList.FirstOrDefault().Comments)</th>
<th>@Html.DisplayNameFor(m => m.ProductionList.FirstOrDefault().CountAll)</th>
<th>@Html.DisplayNameFor(m => m.ProductionList.FirstOrDefault().Width)</th>
<th>@Html.DisplayNameFor(m => m.ProductionList.FirstOrDefault().Height)</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
@foreach (var item in Model.ProductionList)
{
<tr>
<td>@Html.DisplayFor(m => item.MediaTypeName)</td>
<th width="30%">@Html.DisplayFor(m => item.Comments)</th>
<th>@Html.DisplayFor(m => item.CountAll)</th>
<th>@Html.DisplayFor(m => item.Width)</th>
<th>@Html.DisplayFor(m => item.Height)</th>
</tr>
}
</tbody>
</table>
</itext>
Since your code is using the
_PdfLayout.chtmlthe code needs to be written using iTextSharp in an xml format and not html. remove the body tags, change the<tr>to<row>, change the<td>to<cell>and then use<chunk>your text here</chunk>to hold the text inside each cell. Here is an example: