Overflow: 'linebreak' for continuing on new page?

[mthomas-io]

Hi Simon,

First of all, thanks for this great jspdf addition!

I'm using your autotable plugin in my project and so far it worked out very well. But now I encountered a problem when using long tables with long texts. My table is set to 'linebreak' overflow and this works for all cells, except the ones in the bottom row. The cells in the bottom row ellipsize the last line of the content, instead of linebreaking it and continuing on a new page. The new page starts with the next row. Is it possible to have a row continue on the next page in case the content does not fit anymore and if so, how would one configure this or is there any workaround you know of?

[simonbengtsson]

I have had issues with this and for some edge cases I decided to ellipses the content of the last row for now. The reason mainly being that the other solutions I came up with triggered other bugs. That said the edge cases I'm describing are for example when a row spans more than one page height. That doesn't seem to be the case for you however? Could you post (preferably) a codepen or some code and data that I can replicate this with?

[mthomas-io]

http://codepen.io/voxellotl/pen/bVYZLJ

PS: I noticed that in this pen the content of the second pages' bottom row causes a third page to be created without any content. So it is aware of the content not fitting on the original page.

[simonbengtsson]

Thanks! Thats a clear bug and something I thought was fixed. I will look into this as soon as possible.

[emiller12]

Hi Simon,

I have started seeing this exact same bug in my project today. I have a large chunk of text in a cell (with overflow = linebreak) at the bottom of a page. There is also now a whole extra blank page at the bottom of my file (below the two pages shown in this screenshot).

[emiller12]

I have been working on a fix for this, emiller12/jsPDF-AutoTable@1013f066d608e50eb8282ed53c58f54f4e6be530

I have managed to solve the problem of the extra page with no content getting added after a table.

I am now working on a way to continue showing left over text on the next page (instead of ellipsizing) as voxellotl suggested in the first post.

[simonbengtsson]

I kind of fixed this now in 2.0.13. Now it should only be issues when one cell height is bigger than page height. The codepen posted above now works. I will consider it a feature request to create the beahvior of splitting one cell in multiple pages if it doesn't fit on the first, but I don't have any timeplan when to add it. If you @emiller12 want to look into it, feel free!

EDIT: The lib now splits rows to multiple pages when necessary.

[scott-census]

I too like autotable, but even though this is working correctly, it seems, I want another option, which is to defer the row to the next page. Most of my rows have a comment field that is from 3 to 10 lines. Rather than have the comment split across a page, I'd like to leave a bit of space on the first page and have the whole row appear on the second. I am planning to look into adding that as an option.

I also have a drawRow function that looks for a special tag and inserts a full-width row with group header text. That works fine, except when the row that triggers the header has already been split across pages. Hopefully this option would make that work correctly too.

[simonbengtsson]

There is a avoidRowSplit option implemented in version 3.0 which will probably be exactly what you are looking for. Version 3.0 is long overdue. The only thing left to decide is how the hooks should work. I think I have something I'm happy with, but still some hours left I need to spend on it some day.

[scott-census]

Excellent! Sounds exactly like what I am looking for.

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There is a avoidRowSplit option implemented in version 3.0 which will probably be exactly what you are looking for. Version 3.0 is long overdue. The only thing left to decide is how the hooks should work. I think I have something I'm happy with, but still some hours left I need to spend on it some day.

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[scott-census]

I hate to bug you, but any thoughts on when a Version 3.0 might be available? Is there anything I can do to help?

[davidhockey22]

I too would really appreciate the avoidRowSplit option. Any timeline for this?