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I have a situation where I need to nest three tables side-by-side in an outer table. There can be 1 - 3 nested tables in each row and each table is sized to be 1/3 the page width. I created an outer table with 3 columns and then use Row.Cells[cellIndex].Elements.AddTable(). This gets me most of the way there but for reasons I can't seem to figure out, the inner tables get indented to the right by what looks to be about a millimeter or so and so the inner tables do not line up properly with the left edge of the outer table.. I could not seem to find any indent or padding properties that were set to anything but zero so I'm at a loss as to how I get these inner tables to line up. It only looks like the leftmost nested table gets indented with the following two tables to the right of that being lined up directly to the right of the table before it. I've tried using TextFrame but then I have issues with page breaks and whatnot. Anyone have any ideas what I might be doing wrong to cause this slight indent? I'm relatively new to using MigraDoc so I may just be missing something simple. We had to switch to MigraDoc as a replacement for iTextSharp and now we're running into this issue. This forum website would not allow me to attach the PDF with a .pdf extension so I am attaching an image. Hopefully that helps

Hi!
Set them all to 0 even if they seem to be 0 in the debugger.
The values are null if you don't set them - and sometimes a non-zero default value will be used for those null values even though the debugger shows them as 0.
Most likely a property of the cells of the outer table.

You can attach zipped PDF files, but I think the image is more helpful than a PDF.

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Thomas Hoevel
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NestedTableIndent2.png[/attachment]If I set the LeftIndent = 0 for the outer table (Table.Rows.LeftIndent = 0) it causes the row of the outer table that the tables are nested in to indent by the same amount. Setting LeftPadding and RightPadding for all columns in outer table to zero and BottomPadding and TopPadding for the row of the outer table to zero had no effect. I also tried setting LeftIndent = "-0.1cm" but that had no effect.

If I set LeftIndent = -4 on the outer table, it shifts the outer table into the correct location (same location as if I don't set it at all). Setting the LeftIndent property of the inner table doesn't appear to have any effect.

Have you tried setting the LeftPadding of the Column of the outer table? It could be a column or table property you have to set, though it gets rendered with the cell.


You can set Table.Rows.LeftIndent for the inner tables, too. It can also be set to negative values.
The default value is negative to have text appear at the 0 position.
Table.Rows.LeftIndent has the same value, but it's not the problem - and setting it to negative values on the inner table would be a hack.

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Thomas Hoevel
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The magic combination of settings that seems to bring everything into alignment is to set LeftIndent on the outer table to -4 and to set the LeftPadding of the columns of the outer table to zero. I tried commenting out setting the LeftIndent after I got it to align but then that causes the outer table to get indented. Odd that it takes that specific combination to work correctly but I can live with that. Thanks so much for your help!