@ag-media/react-pdf-table

@ag-media/react-pdf-table

@ag-media/react-pdf-table is a declarative table generator for @react-pdf/renderer.

Warning
The library is specifically designed for use with @react-pdf/renderer and will not work with other react renderers.

Getting started

npm install --save-dev @ag-media/react-pdf-table

Basic example

import {Table, TR, TH, TD} from '@ag-media/react-pdf-table';

const Component = () => (
    <Table>
        <TH>
            <TD>Header 1</TD>
            <TD>Header 2</TD>
        </TH>
        <TR>
            <TD>Data 1</TD>
            <TD>Data 2</TD>
        </TR>
    </Table>
);

Hint: you can use the short (<TH />, <TR />, <TD />) or long (<TableHeader />, <TableRow />, <TableCell />) named imports.

Refer to the repo's Storybook for more examples.

Beware ⚠

While this library covers the usual table layouts, it's not a complete or bullet-proof solution. Because not all layouts are 100% achievable with the current react-pdf primitives, the table components need to be implemented in react-pdf (upvote this issue).

Notes

TableCell

Content in a TableCell must evaluate to a string, number, <Fragment /> or a @react-pdf/renderer component (View, Text etc.).

Table's tdProps and trProps

These two props will be passed down to all TableCells and TableRows. Can be used to style cells/rows (styles example).

weighting

Weightings can be defined once for all rows in Table's weightings prop and for each TableCell individually. TableCell's weighting props has precedence over the Table's weightings.

If weighting is not defined for a table cell then it will default to ocupy an equal amount of the remaining space.

The sum of all weightings for one line must should to 1, unless you want a row to be smaller than the table.

Limitations / Known issues

• page wrapping may happen in unexpected ways:

• flex layout is used to simulate how a table looks. Because of this, it's trivial to make columns not line up.

• border collapse

  Because there's no such thing in react-pdf, this has to be "emulated" with negative margins. This is especially painfull for non-default border styles (e.g. outer border)

• dashed and dotted table borders may meet irregularly or overlap