How to show horizontal line in iTextSharp - asp.net

Question

I am creating a pdf and need to put a horizontal line in the page. Can anyone tell how to do that?
I have a xml file which has my html tag(<table>....</table>). And the whole content of xml file is parsed to a string which is used to create the pdf. Now some tags are not supported. One of them is <hr>. So is there any other tag which I can use in the xml file so that this will draw a
line when the pdf is created using xml data.
Below is an example of xml xontent
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<span>
This is working properly.
</span>
</td>
<tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<span>
<hr>
This is not working properly.
</span>
</td>
<tr>
</table>
Please let me know if any more information is needed.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The following creates a full width black line a few pixels thick, I'm using HTMLWorker.Parse:
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<span>
This is working properly.
</span>
</td>
<tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<span>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td> </td></tr></table>
This is working properly now too!
</span>
</td>
<tr>
</table>

Answer 2

You can draw lines from begining postion (moveto), LineTo and then stroke (commit the line):
...
PdfContentByte cb = writer.DirectContent;
....
cb.MoveTo(doc.PageSize.Width / 2, doc.PageSize.Height / 2);
cb.LineTo(doc.PageSize.Width / 2, doc.PageSize.Height);
cb.Stroke();
...

Answer 3

I hope this helps you out
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1); //Create a new table with one column
PdfPCell cellLeft = new PdfPCell(); //Create an empty cell
StyleSheet style = new StyleSheet(); //Declare a stylesheet
style.LoadTagStyle("h1", "border-bottom", "red"); //Create styles for your html tags which you think will be there in PDFText
List<IElement> objects = HTMLWorker.ParseToList(new StringReader(PDFText),style); //This transforms your HTML to a list of PDF compatible objects
for (int k = 0; k < objects.Count; ++k)
{
cellLeft.AddElement((IElement)objects[k]); //Add these objects to cell one by one
}
table.AddCell(cellLeft);