Adjust text overflow in cells

This article explains how to adjust text-overflow in cells when viewing Spreadsheets with GroupDocs.Viewer within you .NET applications.

Introduction

When Spreadsheet is rendered overflowed text inside the cell overlays subsequent cells until it meets non-empty cell. GroupDocs.Viewer provides a setting to configure the mode which will be used for rendering overflowed text:

1. To set the overflowed text to be hidden, set SpreadsheetOptions.TextOverflowMode of HtmlViewOptions class to HideText as shown in the example below.
2. To set the overflowed text to overlay subsequent cells until it meets non empty cell, set SpreadsheetOptions.TextOverflowMode of HtmlViewOptions object to OverlayIfNextIsEmpty. This is a default value.
3. To set the overflowed text to overlay subsequent cells even they are not empty, set SpreadsheetOptions.TextOverflowMode of HtmlViewOptions objectto Overlay.
4. To expand the cell width to fit overflowed text, set SpreadsheetOptions.TextOverflowMode of HtmlViewOptions object to AutoFitColumn. 

NOTE: The same workflow is applicable for JpgViewOptions, PngViewOptions, and PdfViewOptions classes;

How to adjust text overflow in cells 

The following steps are required to manage text-overflow:

• Instantiate the HtmlViewOptions (or JpgViewOptions, or PngViewOptions, or PdfViewOptions) object;
• Set HtmlViewOptions.SpreadsheetOptions.TextOverflowMode to HideText;
• Call View method.

The following code sample shows how to hide text in case it overflows cell.

            using (Viewer viewer = new Viewer("sample.xlsx"))
            {
                HtmlViewOptions viewOptions = HtmlViewOptions.ForEmbeddedResources();
                viewOptions.SpreadsheetOptions.TextOverflowMode = TextOverflowMode.HideText;
                viewer.View(viewOptions);
            }

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GitHub Examples

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

• GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET examples, plugins, and showcase
• GroupDocs.Viewer for Java examples, plugins, and showcase
• Document Viewer for .NET MVC UI Example 
• Document Viewer for .NET App WebForms UI Modern Example
• Document Viewer for Java App Dropwizard UI Modern Example
• Document Viewer for Java Spring UI Example

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